• Supervise the day-to-day ordering of materials and deal with related queries;• Manage supply of Raw Materials to avoid production shortages.• Manage consumable and non-stock requisitions to ensure competitive costs and reduce supply base.• Maintain, or improve, budget pricing for non-stock materials.• Inventory Control and Analysis to achieve KPI targets.• Liaise with Production Planning, Procurement and Stores regarding Material requirements and availability.• Liaise with Engineering and Quality regarding Bill of Materials and Engineering changes.• Support the purchasing needs for new product introduction.• Implement arrangements to minimise stock exposure for end-of-life products; • Identify and resolve potential issues likely to impact manufacturing and overall profitability.• Identify and implement improvement ideas within the Materials Planning function.• Ensuring that materials are ordered and scheduled for delivery from suppliers in the quantity and delivery date required to support our service to customers.• Ensuring deliveries take place on the correct date, in the correct containers, in the quantity required.• Validating that supplier schedules meet the GDHV facilities demands and collaborate with the supplier to ensure continued material availability.• Dealing with any delivery & invoice discrepancies and following through to resolution.• Initiating, coordinating, and participating in activities to ensure optimum inventory levels.• Being involved with, as necessary, the scheduling and control of onward ship material.• Coordinating and managing returnable stillages.• Set up and maintenance of SAP S4/Hana System Master data for Suppliers and Materials.• Weekly reporting on Key Performance Indicators.• Coordinating and managing Engineering Changes.• Participation in Continuous Improvement initiatives.

• Enhancing the company’s profits by acquiring suitable goods at a competitive price through sensible planning and careful purchasing.• Set up new contractual arrangements with suppliers.• Negotiating contract arrangements with local, regional and global suppliers.• Obtaining the best buying terms and conditions & the most competitive prices possible.• Analysing buying and spending patterns to try to predict future trends.• Manage supplier performance ensuring compliance with agreed terms and conditions.• Assess and evaluate potential new suppliers, ensuring authorisation is in place prior to procurement of materials.• Support the purchasing needs for new product introduction.• Implement arrangements to minimise stock exposure for end of life products.• Identify and resolve potential procurement issues likely to impact manufacturing and overall profitability.• Ensure changes to support the Purchasing Strategy.• Maintaining procurement documents in a systematic and auditable fashion.• Ensure all relevant supply information is identified and available for MRP.• Influence and implement any necessary new procurement solutions in support of manufacturing change e.g. lean manufacturing.

• Interpret customer requirements in order to plan and organise the distribution teams activities for new protocols. • And for set lead times and shipping conditions • Provide support to the customer with regard to delivery information and drug order status.• Plan and facilitate communication between relevant departments, transport companies and couriers ensuring effective and efficient communication is taking place and that issues are being resolved in a timely manner.• Work to identify and resolve any anticipated operational difficulties.• Generate weekly & monthly activity reports to ensure key performance indicators are being met. • Allocate batch allocation for drug receipt and despatch and ensure monitor expiry dates are adhered to.• Micro-manage initial shipments for new protocols ensuring that the quality assurance review procedure is completed.• Review, maintain and approve departmental standard operating procedures and instructions to ensure that these are up to date and being followed for each protocol. • Support the resolution of any performance issues and ensure that customer complaints are met with detailed written responses and that those actions are followed through to completion.• Represent Almac on an operational basis during customer visits and assist quality assurance with external agency audits.• Assist the distribution manager during the set-up phase of new customers and protocols, providing support in establishing the approved distribution agreement, technical agreement and courier agreements.• Represent distribution to customers via telephone conference calls and customer meetings.

• Management of sourcing projects each varying in detail, size, importance and activity.• Actively manage all shipping & transport requirements, liaising with external Air Bases (Worldwide), to ensure best• Shipping routes and lead times, and delivery practices • Co-ordinate and liaise with key personnel to ensure that all project requirements are identified and communicated• Between the various internal departments; i.e. design, quality, marketing, sales & customer services • Design and manage robust quality checks for all incoming deliveries to ensure quality is maintained, and feeding back relevant findings to suppliers • Process and prepare all related official documentation for all worldwide imports & exports • Develop current business partnerships & pursue new business opportunities with numerous worldwide source• Suppliers, occasionally travelling to source countries to inspect, advise or attend other Air bases • Negotiate pricing structures and contracts with international source suppliers, working within clearly defined• Sourcing policies • Raise purchase orders for all sourced goods and materials• Organising all payments in conjunction with the accounts department with regards to Documentary Credits, Bills of • Exchange, Open Credits, etc.• Evaluate sales history, sales patterns and sales ratios to allow efficient management for sales forecasting against• Long lead time purchase ordering • Liaise with customer key accounts such as Italian Air Force, US Air Force, French Air Force, and a wide list of External Companies, to ensure, packaging, labelling and delivery requirements are discussed and agreed prior supplier shipment.• Management of 7 full time employees, with the responsibility of organising holidays, sickness, training and additional employees • From various temping agencies

• Organise purchase ordering for all products, materials, accessories and packaging• Produce stock level reports to aid all purchasing within the department• Organise all export shipments to suppliers based Worldwide, and prepare all related transport documentation.• Review sales demand and adjust supply chain requirements accordingly• Identify stock shrinkage by controlling stock release into manufacturing/despatch• Action accordingly to minimise stock damage and rotate stock effectively • Support and co-ordinate weekly/monthly/annual stock cycle counts alongside the finance department.• Highlight any administrative / purchase planning problems within the department and improve the related procedures• Assist in the development and maintenance of internal procedures to control both the sourced and manufactured products• Provide statistical analysis of all spending within the department on a monthly and yearly basis• Monthly supplier analysis and pricing reviews to ensure competitive purchasing of all materials, accessories and packaging• Manage supplier and sales representative relationships to deliver required results.• Organise daily pick/pack duties for despatch team members• Stock control of all product ranges within the despatch and pick face warehouse• Organise weekly, monthly stock cycle counts along with annual stock count audits alongside the finance department.• Processing all relevant documentation within the despatch office• Liaise with various customer key accounts regarding packing/delivery requirements• Liaising with various transport companies, arranging deliveries, collections and original documentation