Peacocks Medical Group are a multi-award-winning family-run group providing outstanding care in the national delivery of both clinical services and medical equipment to the NHS and the private sector.

Quantum Pharmaceutical is a national company specialising in the manufacture and distribution of bespoke unlicensed ‘special’ pharmaceutical products as well as being a wholesaler for a full range of unlicensed, licensed and obtains products.Main Duties and Responsibilities:• Partnering and aligning with the end-to-end supply chain to define business requirements, and leading Quantum’s purchasing and procurement programmes for the provision of high-quality goods and services including Wholesale, Raw Materials, Special Obtains, Consumables and Ancillary services.• Assist in the development, management and implementation of strategies to deliver cost savings and other benefits that impact Group financial performance.• Assist in the development of supply strategies that deliver business requirements across assurance of supply, quality, regulatory, service, cost and innovation.• Participate in cross functional sourcing teams with joint accountability for technical and quality performance through strategy development and implementation.• Implement initiatives and programs to improve quality and cost of bought-in goods and services and reduce lead-times. • Assist in the development of strategic relationships with critical suppliers providing secure and cost-effective sources.• Participate in the development of Continuous Improvement strategy for supply base.• Development and implementation of risk management strategies for the mitigation of risk associated with goods and services in assigned area of responsibility.• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.• Ensure regulatory compliance.• Provide best in class cost.• Managing the Purchasing Department, including recruitment, staff training and development.• Managing purchasing information and systems.• On-going analysis of company expenditure.• Facilitating inter-company trading where possible to retain Group profit margins.• Oversee stock and materials management.

(Part of the Danaher group)Leica Biosystems is a multinational company specialising in the manufacture and distribution of cancer diagnostic equipment and advanced staining consumables.Main Duties and Responsibilities:• Developing, implementing and maintaining commercial supplier agreements ensuring regular status reviews take place.• Working closely with the Quality team and other key stakeholders to establish robust quality agreements, inspection criteria and acceptable quality levels.• Ensuring items are purchased in line with the production plan, optimising Kanban arrangements and maintaining appropriate inventory levels - maximising product shelf life, negating obsolescence and minimising working capital.• Monitoring supplier performance, expediting overdue or urgent orders, and communicating issues to the relevant departments.• Sourcing items cost effectively, ensuring they comply with the required specification. Exploring alternative sources and recommending options.• Developing the supplier base working with both internal and external stakeholders to establish improvement plans from both a cost and quality perspective.• Working with Corporate Purchasing and Finance functions to establish standard costs for purchased items for budgeting purposes.• Identifying issues that support overall cost reduction to generate positive Purchase Price Variance (PPV). • Driving project completion and reporting internally and to Corporate Purchasing function.• Co-ordinating and monitoring of purchase orders in line with Finance procedures to ensure compliance. • Completing the operational functions of purchasing in SAP and all associated monthly reporting.• Managing a central procurement hub process within the Newcastle site for European Leica selling units.

(Part of the UDG Healthcare Plc group)The Specials Laboratory is a national company specialising in the manufacture and distribution of bespoke unlicensed ‘special’ pharmaceutical products. Main Duties and Responsibilities:• Responsible for the strategic management of £6m worth of company expenditure including both direct and indirect spend.• Preparing supply and technical agreements for the company when dealing with new customers, suppliers and trading partners.• Liaising with and building excellent working relationships with suppliers and internal partners.• Negotiation of contractual agreements with supply base, both incumbent and new, to ensure terms and conditions of trading are put in place as well as KPIs and service levels.• Investigating and implementing cost savings across the spend categories controlled, utilising alternative/substitute products and economies of scale where possible.• Sourcing new materials and services as required.• Conducting and completing tender events right through from initial invitation stage to allocation of business.• Dealing with original manufacturers of products to try and obtain better pricing arrangements.• Compiling monthly reports for senior management against agreed KPI’s such as spend covered by contract/agreement and cost savings identified.• On-going analysis of company expenditure.• Setting inventory min/max levels for wholesale department based on historical trending and future market knowledge.• Preparing customer quotations for the over-labelling department based on best market pricing available for licensed product lines.• Part of the UDG Healthcare Strategic Sourcing team looking to leverage and consolidate category spend throughout the UDG Healthcare group of companies, benefiting from increased purchasing power and synergies that are in existence between the business units. • Facilitating inter-company trading where possible to retain group profit margins.

(Part of the Mayborn Baby & Child group)Jackel International is a multinational company specialising in the production and distribution of baby and child merchandise.Main Duties and Responsibilities:• Head of the Purchasing department, line-managing two people.• Responsible for the purchases of £30m worth of commodity spend, both direct and indirect.• Liaising and maintaining excellent working relationships with all suppliers and internal partners.• Negotiation of contractual agreements with supply base, both incumbent and new, to ensure terms and conditions of trading are put in place.• Monitoring KPI adherence on a monthly basis as set out in contract agreement reviews.• Investigating and implementing cost savings across the categories controlled.• Involved with new product development and projects from outset.• Looking after the company pool cars.• Sourcing new materials and services as required.• Negotiating of price reductions based on group-contracted volumes.• Setting up new suppliers in the company database and ensuring that standard payment terms are agreed to (where possible and practical).• Entering orders onto the in house JBA computer system used, ensuring compliance in terms of approval.• Dealing with invoice queries, and resolving with the finance team.• Conducting and completing tender processes right through from initial RFQ stage to allocation of business.• Monthly monitoring of commodity pricing, to allow trends to be plotted.• Compiling of monthly reports for directorate/board level.• Analysis of purchase spends, and preparing budgets.• Looking after departmental section of company operational plan and strategy, making sure we are on track and putting action plans in place if not.• Involved in the recruitment process for new personnel in the department.

Alcan Packaging Cramlington are a multinational manufacturer of flexible packaging for the pharmaceutical industry.Main Duties and Responsibilities:• A key member of the commercial team – responsible for the purchasing of all base materials for use during the production process.• Responsible for maintaining excellent working relationships and communication with all customers, suppliers and internal partners.• Ensuring inventory of raw materials is kept to a minimum, within agreed stock levels without sacrificing production schedules.• Liaising daily with suppliers to manage all component requirements and deliveries.• Receiving and placement of customer orders and follow through of the process to delivery of finished product.• Processing of new customer artworks for upcoming designs - dealing with customer queries.• Compiling monthly stock/inventory/cost analysis reports for senior management/group.• Assist in preparation of sales budgets for major customers.• Role cover for production planner during holidays and sickness.

Procter & Gamble are a multinational manufacturing company, at the Seaton Delaval site producing major brand names such as Hugo Boss, Georgio Beverly Hills, Clairol colourant, Lacoste and Pantene.Main Duties and Responsibilities:• A key member of the fragrance materials management team.• Ensuring that the right product was in the right place at the right time and at the lowest possible cost.• Maintaining excellent working relationships and communications with all suppliers/internal partners.• Negotiating with suppliers and building the most efficient supply system possible, achieving the best service at the lowest possible cost.• Ensuring that all components and raw materials were delivered on time allowing production plans to be completed on schedule.• Ensuring component inventory was maintained to a minimum level of requirement.• Working continually with all suppliers to reduce lead-time and price for component delivery.• Monitoring SAPR/3 daily to ensure that all product codes are holding enough inventory to complete production plans.• Liaising daily with suppliers to manage all component requirements and deliveries.• Setting up new components in SAPR/3.

Procter & Gamble are a multinational manufacturing company, at the Seaton Delaval site producing major brand names such as Hugo Boss, Georgio Beverly Hills, Clairol colourant, Lacoste and Pantene.Main Duties and Responsibilities:• A key member of the haircare materials management team.• Ensuring that the right product was in the right place at the right time and at the lowest possible cost.• Maintaining excellent working relationships and communications with all suppliers/internal partners.• Negotiating with suppliers and building the most efficient supply system possible, achieving the best service at the lowest possible cost.• Ensuring that all components and raw materials were delivered on time allowing production plans to be completed on schedule.• Ensuring component inventory was maintained to a minimum level of requirement.• Working continually with all suppliers to reduce lead-time and price for component delivery.• Monitoring SAPR/3 daily to ensure that all product codes are holding enough inventory to complete production plans.• Liaising daily with suppliers to manage all component requirements and deliveries.• Setting up new components in SAPR/3.