Daryl Lowe Email & Phone Number

Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom

Derbyshire

Derby, United Kingdom

• Global point of contact for procurement guidance and advice
• Leading and facilitating process improvement and simplification, knowledge and best practice sharing
• Responsible for ensuring procurement process compliance
• Supporting the procurement teams by ensuring fit for purpose tools, templates and training are available
• Operating the people load & capacity process for procurement, ensuring balanced people load and capacity
• Responsible for organising and facilitating the Global Sourcing Board, including compliance, Go/No-Go reviews & KPI’s

• Responsible for ensuring process compliance within the UK purchasing team
• Responsible for organising and facilitating the Global Sourcing Board, including compliance, Go/No-Go reviews & KPI’s
• Point of contact for procurement guidance and advice

Derby, United Kingdom

• Purchasing lead for Titanium Aluminide LP Blades (top 14 technology), ensuring supply chain choice for the entire value stream (alloy, casting, machining, coating), successfully resulting in contractual coverage.
• Created the XRA supplier strategy and supported the creation of the Turbines Casting strategy, implemented strategic and contractual solutions
• Successfully negotiated several Long Term Agreements to the value of $45M

Derby, United Kingdom

• Jan to Jul 2014, acted as a Programme Manager supporting the XWB Component Manager, acted as the Supply Chain Unit main point of contact for the XWB-97K project, managed the XWB-97K SCU delivery commitments, compiled.
• Planning & control single point of contact for Purchasing, ensured key elements such as load and capacity, supply chain risk, rate readiness and logistics were used effectively to influence both strategic commodity and.
• Successfully led a team of Supply Chain Designers and Pre-Prod MRPCs, delivering robust supply chain solutions and new product introduction
• Delivered in-depth comprehensive rate readiness assessments, satisfying customer requirements across multiple engine projects, for both the internal and external supply chain
• Delivered continuous improvement activities including lead-time reduction through value stream mapping, planning & control influencing of purchase, sourcing blueprints and Supplier Planning Assessment

Derby, United Kingdom

• Successfully developed and implemented commodity and supplier strategies, resulting in global multi-party contractual agreements to the value of $30M that delivered both cost reduction and new service capabilities
• Delivered and managed purchasing activities, successfully negotiated multiple contracts to the value of $18M to support Defence Services and On-Wing Care engine services
• As purchasing lead on a number of commodities, delivered multiple aftermarket component repair contracts to the value of $12M to support the Civil Repair & Overhaul network

Derbyshire

• Accountable to the Managing Director, managed a CNC machining and water jet facility which specialised in the manufacture of high quality aerospace components
• Managed 40 employees across various functions, ensuring the customer’s requirements on quality, delivery and cost were achieved
• Implemented visual management, robust load and capacity planning and ERP compliance, resulting in improved on-time delivery, customer satisfaction and the award of new business

Derbyshire

• Worked with a number of global internal and external Rolls-Royce Centre of Excellence (CoE) component repair facilities to ensure accurate forecasting and capacity planning
• Audited existing and potential CoE suppliers, identified deficiencies and improvement activities and supported the supplier to successful completion of these activities
• Ensured suppliers were production rate ready during commodity transfers and new product introduction

Derbyshire

• Purchasing lead and single point of contact for the $440M Component Services Agreement with Lufthansa Technik. Successfully delivered commercial long term agreements, part transfers, repair approval programmes and new.
• Developed and executed commodity (Combustors) and supplier (SAESL) strategies

Derbyshire

• Managed a small team of people delivering the customer’s requirements in terms of quality, delivery and cost

Derbyshire

• Working as the Estimator, calculated manufacturing costs in response to customer’s request for quotations which accumulated in won business totalling £6M per annum
• As the Manufacturing Engineer, managed new product introduction ensuring correct methods of manufacture and product integrity to aerospace specifications