• Day to day management of operational buying activities and driving supplier performance for the respective supplier base with focus on parts availability and working capital.
• Expectations focus on making and implementing sound business decisions based on available data.
• High level of collaboration with internal stakeholders including: Sourcing, Engineering and Customer Service.

• Manage and improve relationships with the suppliers in your portfolio
• Ensure agreed performance targets are met including on-time delivery and lead-time accuracy
• Proactively engage with suppliers to deliver improvement initiatives focused on availability and inventory reductions
• Conduct regular business review meetings and agree corrective actions if required
• Ensure that the operational buying tasks are performed in a timely manner. End to end responsibility including PO placement, PO tracking from order to receipt, expediting urgent orders, resolving invoice discrepancies, data integrity maintenance and responding to sales region queries.
• Responsible for system parameter maintenance including lead-time, safety stock levels and classification. Improve availability and reduce lead-time through accurate and timely forecasting.
• Design and implement inventory reduction initiatives such as Vendor Managed Inventory
• Support supply chain improvement projects and work closely with other departments as needed.
• Understand and improve customer experience by driving improvements in the order fulfilment rate.
• Ensure that the supplier portfolio is optimized: eliminate dormant suppliers, rationalize the active supply base
• Other tasks as required.

• 22 days annual leave
• 4 Company Days
• Defined Contribution Pension
• VHI Health Insurance
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Health & Wellbeing Initiatives – gym membership, wellbeing seminars, bike to work scheme
• Flexible start & Finish times