The Company:
Join a forward-thinking and innovative manufacturing business at the heart of the North East. This company prides itself on fostering a collaborative, supportive culture where your ideas and expertise can truly make an impact. With a commitment to sustainable growth and operational excellence, this is an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Lead to shape procurement strategy while leading a motivated team.
Working Hours: Full-time, Monday–Friday
Job Description:
As the Procurement Lead, you will oversee all direct and indirect procurement activity, ensuring operational quality, cost, and delivery (QCD) targets are consistently achieved. You will lead a small purchasing team, drive cost-effective sourcing decisions, and build strong supplier relationships that align with the company’s long-term strategic goals.
Your responsibilities as Procurement Lead will include managing supplier performance, conducting RFQs, tender evaluation, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. You will also support category strategy development through market research and cost analysis while identifying opportunities for process improvement and supplier consolidation.
The Procurement Lead will work closely with cross-functional teams, aligning procurement activities with production, maintenance, and operational needs to prevent disruption. You will provide day-to-day leadership to your team, manage purchase orders, support stock checks, and liaise with finance to resolve invoice queries efficiently.
Skills & Experience:
- Degree in a business-related discipline preferred
- CIPS qualification (or working towards) desirable
- Experience in a busy purchasing environment, ideally in automotive supply chain or manufacturing
- Strong commercial awareness with excellent negotiation and influencing skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Strong analytical ability, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities
Why Should You Apply?
This is your chance to take ownership of a critical function as the Procurement Lead in a company that values innovation, collaboration, and professional growth. You will have the opportunity to lead a motivated team, influence supplier strategy, and make tangible contributions to operational efficiency. If you are a proactive, commercially minded professional looking to shape procurement strategy and deliver measurable results, this role is for you.
Apply today to join an organisation where your expertise as a Procurement Lead will be valued, your ideas acted upon, and your career developed in a supportive, forward-thinking environment.
