Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coach, lead and develop diverse talent to build a high-performance purchasing team through adherence to Standard Work – demonstrate commitment to this environment through their own Leadership Standard Work while fostering an inclusive culture.
- Align suppliers to the requirements of purchase order product specifications and delivery terms.
- Ensure production or sales & aftermarket operations for the regions in the PSC portfolio can be executed as planned through effective purchasing while contributing to working capital improvement (inventory, payment terms).
- Deliver best value to Smiths through the management of costs and the execution of category strategy in transactional purchasing.
- Structure the team to make best use of available resource and provide the required operational service.
- Demonstrate awareness of overall business strategy and actively seek to contribute towards its achievement.
- Manage daily tasks, issues and priorities on a self-directed basis, escalating to procurement leadership as appropriate.
- PR to PO Turnaround
- Purchase order ageing
- MRP exception msg status
- Purchase order acknowledgements obtained
- PPV
- VMI availability
- Invoice hold value
- Spend under Pull Replenishment
- Supplier OTD
- Lead time accuracy
- Supplier count
- Cost avoidance
- PO volumes (spend and line count)