As Purchasing Manager, your responsibility is to coordinate purchasing of direct/indirect and provision of repairable parts, to satisfy stock models, urgent requirements and scheduled maintenance events.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Coordinating the purchase and provision of goods to maintain stock levels and satisfying requirements.
• Planning parts provisioning including rent, lease, and purchase.
• Minimising costs whilst adhering to a safe efficient supply and promoting this awareness to staff.
• Communicating changing lead times and non-availability of parts to other managers as appropriate.
• Ensuring activities are satisfactorily undertaken to support core returns, and repairs.
• Ensuring that all duties commensurate with the roles are managed effectively.
• Managing performance of all purchasing staff.
• Ensuring that all training and development needs of the staff are met.
• Ensuring that the department is resourced appropriate to fulfil the needs of the department efficiently.
• Informing the operations daily of an update on the movement of critical parts.
• Liaising with Accounts Payable to ensure correct and timely payment of invoices.
• Liaising with Fleet Management to ensure Bristow’s supply contracts are effective and cost efficient.
• Liaising with Inventory & Planning Manager to identify excess and surplus stock, and future requirements.
• Liaising with Maintenance Planning organisation to coordinate the timely receipt of components and parts.
• Developing and managing relationships with suppliers and repair and overhaul providers.
• Carrying out vendor auditing and scoring in compliance with the supply chain manual.
• Carrying out supplier visits to support audit program.
• Creating and maintaining strategic relationships with vendors to minimise financial planning risk.
• Working with Compliance to review NCRs associated with supply of parts and Monitor supplier performance.

Applicants to this role require:

• Experience of working in a purchasing environment.
• CIPS preferred.
• Experience in technical purchasing and contracts.
• Experience in managing a team.
• Ability to articulate, summarize, and present information clearly to audiences with different backgrounds and at different levels of the company.
• Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently and coordinate common resources.
• Ability to interface well with leadership, management and internal and external clients.
• Ability to assigns tasks and responsibilities to others and provide clear instruction and direction.
• Weighing alternatives, considering both short and long-term effects and then being resolute in the decisions they make.
• Problem analysis and problem-solving ability is required to ensure solutions are determined.
• Highly collaborative, works with all stakeholders to deliver results and keep others informed.
• Ability to travel as this position will require 15% travel.

TMM Recruitment