Vendor Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain, this role is responsible for developing and maintaining a robust, efficient, and cost-effective supply chain that delivers quality products on time and to specification. The position focuses on suppliers of fabrication, bespoke components, and standard equipment across Zeeco's EMEA region, aiming to promote smooth project execution and improve the supply of inbound materials and services proactively and reactively. Responsibilities include identifying and vetting new suppliers, assessing their capability, capacity, and compliance, and managing approved vendor lists. The role involves working with project teams to select appropriate vendors, negotiating contract terms, pricing, and delivery schedules, and managing post-order vendor performance. Key duties also include reporting on supplier performance, leading supplier improvement initiatives, ensuring compliance with quality management systems like ISO 9001, and coordinating inspections with the Quality team. The Vendor Manager will also identify and implement process and vendor improvements and travel extensively within the EMEA region to visit suppliers.
Must have:
- Identify and review new suppliers
- Negotiate contract terms, pricing, and delivery
- Manage post-order vendor performance
- Report on supplier performance and KPIs
- Ensure ISO 9001 compliance
- Ensure safe working practices
- Identify process and vendor improvements
- Experience in sourcing fabricated steel items
- Knowledge of fabrication and manufacturing processes
- Ability to read engineering drawings
- Experience with ISO 9001, 14001, 45001
- Contractual awareness and negotiation skills
- Manage multiple projects and schedules
- Root cause analysis and problem resolution
- Develop supplier validation criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Organized with reporting ability
- Self-motivated and able to work remotely
- Proficient in MS Office and MS Project
- Able to travel within the EMEA area
Good to have:
- Knowledge of structural steel work, pipework, vessels, skids, rotating equipment
- Knowledge of vessel manufacture to ASME VIII, PD5500
- Knowledge of PED & PE(S)R
- Knowledge of production planning
- Knowledge of HSE
3 skills required
Job Details
Role Summary:
Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain, this role will develop and maintain a robust, efficient and cost-effective supply chain which delivers quality product, on time, to specification. Focusing on suppliers of fabrication, bespoke components, and standard equipment across Zeeco's EMEA region, the role will promote smooth project execution and improve, both proactively and reactively, supply of inbound material and services.
- Responsibilities include:
- Identifying new suppliers and carrying out reviews/audits of supplier capability, capacity and competence, while assessing compliance and ethics, to maintain an approved vendor list.
- Working with the project team to ensure selection of most appropriate vendors to meet project, quality, budget, schedule and other requirements.
- Supporting the negotiation of contract terms, pricing, and delivery of project demands.
- Post order vendor management - reporting on progress and expediting of contracts throughout the project life cycle, negotiating where changes are required and acting as a liaison between Zeeco’s engineering teams and the supply base.
- Establishing, maintaining, and reporting on supplier performance and associated KPIs, playing a lead role in supplier performance improvement & NCR cost recovery.
- Ensure the department is well placed to meet the criteria of Major QMS accreditations, including ISO 9001
- Ensuring safe working practices are maintained throughout the vendors manufacturing process and coordinating inspection activities with the Quality team.
- Identifying and implementing opportunities for process and vendor improvements
- Travel in the EMEA area to visit suppliers and potential suppliers – up to 50 – 70% of the week working away from the office.
The Candidate:
The ideal candidate will have experience in sourcing fabricated steel items and associated manufacturing operations.
They will be from a fabrication / procurement / supplier development background with good inter-personal skills that can be applied across a range of situations and cultures.
· Knowledge of fabrication and manufacturing processes and materials, ideally covering:
o Structural steel work
o Pipework and vessels and skids
o Rotating equipment
o Vessel manufacture – to ASME VIII, PD5500 etc.
o PED & PE(S)R
· Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, and knowledge of production planning.
· Experience in the application of ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 and knowledge of HSE.
· Contractual awareness, with great negotiation skills.
· Experience of managing multiple projects, including preparing and maintaining schedules.
· A proven track record of root cause analysis and demonstrable experience of leading problem resolution
· Experience in developing and implementing supplier validation criteria.
· Excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
· Organised with ability to accurately record & report on activity.
· Self-motivated with ability to work remotely without direct supervision
· Confident user of MS Office software, including MS Project.
· Able to drive, and willing and able to travel as required.
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