Category Specialist

At Essentra Components we are constantly growing, evolving and trying to better ourselves. This is to stay ahead of our competitors and continue to be the best at what we do.

Subsequently, we are now searching for a key individual to help us design, improve, support and make our processes more agile.

We are looking for an experienced Procurement Specialist who has industry experience ideally in manufacturing or components.

You will be providing expertise in category management and procurement activities across the growing Essentra Components business.

Whoever is successful in this opportunity will work closely with divisional group and business teams.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and manage robust strategic (3-18 month) commodity plans with all relevant stakeholders
• Gather relevant market intelligence to support the business with insightful commercial information
• Work with key stakeholders to define opportunities and deliver the benefits
• Apply a fact-based and insight-led approach to recommendations put forward to the business
• Help drive sustainability & ESG agenda across procurement function & category
• Execute value for money decision making through spend leverage, cost benchmarking and through the negotiation of favourable terms and fact-based recommendations
• Ensure and mitigate business risk across the commodity portfolio
• Support the NPI process and develop strong relationships with the relevant Essentra Product Manager
• Manages and develops the commodity area with an emphasis on continuous improvement
• May be required to support on other procurement categories including but not limited to freight, indirect & raw material procurement
• Ensures adherence Procurement's standards and policy
• Monitors supplier compliance with Essentra governance requirements
• Take responsibility for tracking both cost saving and price adjustment reporting against budget
• Coordinate, monitor and report on all data and pricing changes
• Apply a flexible and pragmatic approach to all tasks undertaken
• Actively promotes Procurement to the wider business to ensure leading practice is adopted, delivered and recognised

Education, Qualifications and Experience:

Essential

• Procurement experience within a category-based role
• Industrial/ manufacturing experience
• Fluent English
• Negotiation experience
• Strong presentation/ communication skills
• Sound commercial understanding
• Strong numeracy and analytic skills
• Customer service driven
• Task orientated with ability to own and complete complex tasks

Desirable

• Goods for resale experience
• Level 4 CIPS qualification
• Component purchasing experience
• Commercial experience
• Microsoft D365 experience
• Experience of working in a multinational business

What we offer:

• Attractive Salary
• Discretionary Annual Bonus
• Up to 5% matched pension contribution
• 4x annual salary life assurance
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
• Employee discounts through Edenred
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week based in an Essentra office.

Location is flexible globally - the position can be based at any Essentra location.

Essentra plc is a leading global provider of essential components and solutions, focusing on the manufacture and distribution of plastic injection moulded, vinyl dip moulded and metal items.

Headquartered in the UK, Essentra's global network extends to 28 countries worldwide and includes over 3,000 employees, 14 manufacturing facilities, 24 distribution centres and 33 sales & service centres serving c.74,000 customers with a rapid supply of low cost but essential products for a variety of applications in industries such as equipment manufacturing, automotive, fabrication, electronics, medical and renewable energy.

At Essentra we are looking for individuals who enjoy working as part of a close team, are passionate about what they do and who strive to make a difference. We are always looking to better ourselves and are keen to recruit individuals who like to innovate and improve processes.

Essentra Components is an established business with a focus on continuous improvement, sustainability and plans for further industry expansion, as such it is an exciting time to be joining the business.