A multi-award-winning, growing company are looking for a procurement manager to join their vibrant offices in Tonbridge, to create and implement a purchasing strategy for the company to meet their fast-growing needs.

Responsibilities
●Create and manage the implementation of a strategy for purchasing products
●Liaise with company directors and heads of department as required to determine their requirements and budgets and to avoid duplication
●Nurture relationships with existing suppliers and research, identify and develop relationships with new suppliers in order to negotiate the best prices for the business.
●Monitor business trends and product/service availability to pay the minimal prices without sacrificing quality or delivery times.
●Manage budgets as required, ensuring they are kept up to date, and that accurate reports can be run on procurement data on a regular basis to inform senior management on total group, business unit, team and individual team member expenditure and on business trends.

The successful candidate will have:
●Experience within a procurement role
●Proven, successful people management experience
●Experience of managing multiple budgets
●Excellent level of numeracy and good financial analysis skills
●Superlative negotiation skills with strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
●Excellent time management and organisation skills
●CIPS qualification
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The client are looking to hire asap, please contact Kate at Floss to discuss further