A well organised, highly efficient and self-motivated Supply Chain | Purchasing professional with customer focus and broad experience across a complete parts lifecycle, from development, negotiation, set-up, growth, maturity and phase out. Excellent team building skills with a hands-on approach; utilising strong negotiation, communication and influencing skills to shape the team to exceed business objectives. Dedicated and fully proficient with supplier development to leverage optimal quality, cost and delivery, mitigating internal or external risk to any account.Strong MRP and SAP knowledge and experience; main point-of-contact and key user for Volvo CE purchasing team Incorporating Lean principles into all new processes and throughout the full range of daily activity and long-term projects; sharing and cascading best practice across the team Lead and train new team members within the purchasing team on MRP processes; mentoring and developing across a wide scope of processes and task | project managementAudit skills with quality management systems internally and externally ensuring compliance with ISO 9001 | 14001 standards Management of tendering and supplier analysis to mitigate risk and establish best options based on competencies and commercialsExperience of drafting, evaluation and review and negotiation of Supplier ContractsUtilising a full range of Microsoft and SAP IT tools to streamline activity, create professional business correspondence; digestible statistical information and informative presentationsDesigning and implement tenable solutions in real time using sound judgement and intelligent decision making capacityManaging high value budgets of £10M+ across electrical and mechanical commoditiesLow cost sourcing with experience of managing suppliers in India, China and Lithuania, making adjustments which account for cross-cultural business protocol without compromising on quality