Procurement Delivery Manager

Purpose

As Procurement Delivery Manager, you will be accountable for overseeing and managing delivery risk for all suppliers and commodities, enabling and unlocking on-time delivery to customer programme milestones and supporting operational flow.

This will be achieved through the effective management of Procurement Project Specialists, aligned by operational cell and programme, to manage supplier delivery of materials and services supporting ACS UK requirements across both OEM NPI and Aftermarket Spares.

Within OEM NPI and Aftermarket Spares, there are varied operating environments across cells and value streams, together with differing customer agreements and supply-chain designs, including Free-Issue. This creates diverse challenges and complexities when coordinating and managing credible supplier delivery plans.

Leading Procurement Project Specialists in cross-functional collaboration will therefore be crucial to enabling effective Procurement processes, supported by a robust governance structure. This includes participation in production cell daily stand-ups and regular customer and programme reviews.

Managing supplier delivery and quality performance will be a key responsibility and will provide critical input into commodity strategic plans. Building strong relationships with Commodity Buying is also essential to ensure delivery risks are appropriately managed through upstream Procurement processes, including Sourcing.

The role will also support and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing cross-functional collaboration and functional capacity through the removal of waste and increased efficiency across key processes.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

As Procurement Delivery Manager, you will lead Procurement Project Specialists responsible for coordinating and managing credible supplier delivery plans in line with ACS UK requirements across both OEM and Aftermarket environments. You will manage team resources effectively, ensuring organisational efficiency, balanced workloads, appropriate capacity and alignment with operational cells and programmes.

You will ensure the continuous development of Procurement Project Specialists through coaching, mentoring, training and performance management, creating a high-performing team with the capability to deliver against business requirements.

Procurement

The role will be responsible for deploying and implementing effective methods, processes and governance for coordinating credible supplier delivery plans and managing delivery and quality risks that could impact operational flow or customer programme delivery milestones.

You will support production cell daily stand-ups and programme reviews, providing clear visibility of supplier delivery risks, issues and actions. You will collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders to mitigate delivery risks and resolve a wide range of delivery issues and process blockers, including those relating to technical, design, quality, engineering and customer Free-Issue requirements.

You will act as a key point of contact for delivery-related queries and escalate delivery and quality performance risks and issues through appropriate daily functional meetings. You will own and balance supplier performance for delivery and quality, ensuring appropriate actions are identified and followed through.

You will integrate and lead material Free-Issue activity, managing and escalating risks as necessary and collaborating across Programmes, Goods Receipt and Procurement. You will also support supplier audits in collaboration with the Procurement Manager and build and maintain effective supplier relationships, fostering collaboration, accountability and trust.

Where required, you will collaborate with Finance to resolve supplier invoicing queries and manage materials replenishment following the initiation of Supplier Non-Conformance tasks with suppliers through Commodity Buyers.

You will support change requests once raised by Commodity Buyers, working collaboratively with Planning, Design and other key internal stakeholders. You will also liaise with and oversee Logistics activity where necessary to support standard, special and expedited transport requirements.

You will drive team compliance with key supplier transactional activities, including order book management, ensuring supplier delivery due dates are accurately represented within the MRP system.

Other Responsibilities

The role will provide supplier delivery and quality performance information and supplier insights into the creation of commodity strategic plans as required.

You will contribute to and support functional continuous improvement initiatives and projects designed to enhance efficiency, remove waste, improve cross-functional collaboration and increase functional capacity.

You will support and provide supplier delivery and quality performance information for commercial bids covering both OEM and Aftermarket Spares. You will also support budgeting, business planning and monthly business reviews as required.

You will comply with all relevant company policies, processes and trade compliance requirements.

Key Performance Measures

Performance will be measured through a range of supplier, procurement and operational measures, including:

• Supplier OTIF to MRP Date.

• Purchase order lines in arrears to MRP, including depth across OEM and Spares and excluding applicable Free-Issue, Goods-Issue and greater-than-three-day measures.

• Purchase order lines where the due date exceeds the required MRP date.

• Purchase order lines with due dates in the past.

• Goods In Quarantine turnaround time.

• Goods In Quarantine open issues and quantities.

• Open works order purchase order shortages covering Purchased and Free-Issue materials.

• Purchase order line changes resulting in more than seven days' pushout.

• Courier expedite spend against budget.

• Supplier quality performance based on GRNs versus Supplier Non-Conformances.

• Supplier audit adherence against plan.

Knowledge, Education, Skills and Experience

Knowledge

The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of Procurement principles, resource management and Procurement organisational design. Experience of commodity procurement, ideally aligned to similar ACS UK specifications or commodities, is desirable.

You will have experience of operating within Engineering and Manufacturing environments, particularly OEM, Aftermarket and NPI environments, together with knowledge of Supplier Relationship Management and strong understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain concepts, including demand and supply planning.

You will have a good understanding of operating within MRP and ERP systems, together with sound knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Power BI and Microsoft Project.

Education

Degree-level education is preferred, although relevant experience and vocational qualifications will also be valued. A CIPS qualification, Advanced Practitioner qualification or equivalent is encouraged.

You will be able to demonstrate a commitment to continuous personal and professional development.

Skills and Competencies Required

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership capability and experience of leading high-performing teams, fostering collaboration and creating a shared vision.

You will be an effective leader and influencer of change, with the ability to influence processes, projects and procedures and drive improvements across the function.

You will be adept at maintaining strong business relationships and collaborating confidently with internal and external stakeholders, including geographically dispersed teams.

You will have professional-level verbal, written and listening communication skills, with the ability to distil information, facts and data clearly and concisely at all levels and across all functions.

You will demonstrate a flexible attitude and resilience, together with a proactive, solutions-focused approach to working in a high-pressure, fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

You will demonstrate exceptional customer service to both internal and external customers, supported by advanced stakeholder management skills.

You will be skilled at proactively identifying and evaluating risks and issues, with the ability to solve problems through creative and innovative thinking in complex and ambiguous situations.

You will have intermediate to advanced technology skills covering ERP, Power BI and Microsoft Office.

You will be attentive to detail and comfortable analysing, interpreting and summarising information, with the ability to deliver concise reports and presentations to internal and external stakeholders.

You will demonstrate strong initiative and commitment to accomplishing work, achieving results and meeting deadlines.

You will be self-motivated and actively participate in professional development and training opportunities. A high degree of integrity is required, as data confidentiality is paramount.

You will have the ability to influence decision-making at all levels and across all functions and will be expected to contribute new ideas and creative suggestions for continuous improvement.

Professional Experience

The successful candidate will have more than seven years' demonstrated experience working with Procurement principles and processes.

More than five years' experience in a fast-paced Manufacturing environment is required, with Aerospace or another highly regulated industry preferred.

Experience of Procurement within an NPI or build-to-specification production environment is preferred.

More than five years' experience managing multiple supplier accounts is required, together with experience of managing and leading more than five direct reports, preferably within Procurement.

Experience of Global Supplier Relationship Management and supplier risk management is desirable, together with a sound understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain planning and MRP systems.

Key Relationships and Interaction

Internal Relationships and Interactions

The successful candidate will be confident working with key stakeholders across all relevant functions, including Design, Engineering, Quality, Operations, Programmes, Planning, Finance, Procurement and other business functions.

External Relationships and Interactions

The role requires confidence in working with external suppliers of all sizes and across different geographies, building effective relationships, managing performance and resolving delivery and quality issues.

Working Arrangements

Travel as and when required.