Responsible for the Procurement strategy and execution of the Active Control Stick (ACS) / Active Inceptor System (AIS) across multiple Civil and Military, fixed and rotary wing platforms. Subcontract manager for Sensing and Precision Bearings for the Rochester Site.Duties include: • Stakeholder Management - Across functional groups, internal and external.• Tactical Procurement - Identifying, developing and contracting key major sub contract c components. • Supplier Development/Performance – Chairing Supplier Business Reviews (SBRs), Creation of Monthly OTD, quality scorecards, Supporting Process Verification Audits (PVAs), Implementation of Supplier performance recovery plans.• Contract Management - Creation of Statement of Work and Long Term Supplier Agreements, include contract negotiation, trading terms and price escalation indices to protect long term pricing. • Budget Control, Spend Analysis - Creating and maintaining the Procurement material and labour cost baselines for projects from bid phase through to production.• Lean Manufacturing - Working with Operations to create a material pipeline, implementing trading agreements with forecasts.• Risks, Opportunities and Project Plans - Management of the Procurement tasks, set up, maintenance and burndown.• Material Purchases – From Design, Advanced Parts List (APL) through to final Bill of Materials (BOM) stage.• Lifecycle Management - Creation and maintenance of the Procurement Plan for the Project.• Reporting - Manage cross functional inputs into Weekly/Monthly Project Reporting.• Ongoing Improvement - Part of the Production line KANBAN implementation team.• Managing Change – From development through to production including point of embodiment management for product improvements and Procurement sign off for Change Requests (CRs)

Creating, managing and implementing a supply chain strategy -Duties include: • Organising, staffing and attending trade shows.• Long term agreements with suppliers.• Negotiating, implementing and project managing proactive cost reductions.• Identifying, selecting, developing and managing existing and new suppliers to support future business needs.• Production consultancy for key problem Suppliers.• Stock ordering and sourcing for new, current stocked and non-stocked parts.• Creating Schedule and Kanban order types for efficiency.• Controlling PR, PCR & PDR (Product Release, Change & Deviation requests)• Ensuring material & parts availability in line with production requirements.• Rationalisation of stock holding.• Updating price files and sign off changes.• Accounts queries and discrepancies.• Key “In-house” production, engineering, after sales and parts meetings. • Daily usage of ODBC for shortage status and analysis reports.

Purchaser / Group Buyer (January 2000 to June 2003)Duties included:• External Supplier /Manufacturer meetings.• Internal sales team and warehouse stock meetings• Ordering stock based upon daily schedules, for all four branches.• Internal orders / stock control within the company between branches.• Arranging stock cleanses (return orders)• Keeping control and monitoring backorders, • Sourcing of products from second and third line suppliers. • Updating price files, pricing matrixes and releasing offers.• I.T control for all four branches. Monitoring the system, solving problems and faults.• Good knowledge of Tridex Systems and Microsoft Office. Day to day use of Excel, Word and Publisher.• Organisation of company events. Parts Person (May 1998 to January 2000) Duties included:• Face-to-Face contact with customers on a daily basis.• Customer satisfaction, problem resolution, part identification.• Management and progression of incoming telephone sales.• Till balance, income Vs sales.

Duties included:• Allocation of work to other officers.• Post handling, allocation, and filing.• Creating databases, spreadsheets to all information to be stored efficiently.• Speaking to clients.