Procurement Manager - PCD

Role overview

Procurement and commodity management

• Develop sourcing strategies aligned with cost, quality, capacity, and continuity of supply.
• Lead RFQs, supplier evaluations, commercial negotiations, and supplier selection.
• Manage supplier pricing, lead times, commercial performance, and contractual requirements.
• Develop alternate and local sources for critical, constrained, and single-source materials.
• Work with Engineering and Quality on value engineering and cost-reduction opportunities.

Mechanical part and supplier development

• Lead development of new mechanical parts from RFQ through production release.
• Coordinate technical clarifications, samples, tooling, FAI/PPAP, and qualification with Engineering, Quality, and suppliers.
• Evaluate supplier manufacturing capability, process suitability, and production readiness.
• Ensure new parts meet cost, quality, capacity, lead-time, and delivery requirements.

Constraints and supplier capacity

• Identify plant-level material constraints and shortages, and act as the first-line resolver of supply disruptions.
• Coordinate with Production Planning and analyse demand, inventory, open purchase orders, and supplier commitments to anticipate shortages.
• Develop recovery plans with clear ownership and target dates; highlight excess, shortfall, and inventory coverage risks.
• Escalate structural supplier constraints through Procurement channels.
• Assess supplier capacity against forecasts and production needs, including equipment, tooling, cycle times, shifts, staffing, and raw-material availability.
• Validate supplier capacity commitments and establish recovery or expansion plans; coordinate alternate sourcing when needed.

Delivery and expediting

• Manage plant-level supplier on-time and in-full delivery performance.
• Expedite critical materials and resolve overdue or potentially late deliveries, prioritising production and line-down risk.
• Conduct supplier delivery and shortage-recovery reviews.

Requirements

• Manage procurement for assigned mechanical commodities.
• Develop sourcing strategies that address cost, quality, capacity, and continuity of supply.
• Lead RFQs, supplier evaluation, commercial negotiations, and supplier selection.
• Develop new mechanical parts and suppliers from RFQ through production release, including technical clarification, samples, tooling, FAI/PPAP, and qualification.
• Evaluate supplier manufacturing capability, process suitability, and production readiness.
• Identify and resolve plant-level material constraints, shortages, and supply disruptions.
• Assess supplier capacity against forecasts and production needs, validate commitments, and establish recovery or expansion plans.
• Manage supplier on-time delivery performance and expedite critical materials.