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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in sourcing strategies, supplier evaluation, and negotiation for engineered components and production equipment. Proficient in managing supply chain risks and maintaining supplier performance while collaborating across engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams.
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Sourcing Engineered ComponentsSupplier Evaluation and NegotiationCost Analysis and ManagementSupply Chain Risk MitigationProcurement Qualification or Equivalent Experience
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Hard Skills
Sourcing StrategiesBill of Materials InterpretationSupplier Performance AnalysisCost-Down RoadmapsNegotiation of Pricing and TermsSupplier OnboardingCommercial Master Data ManagementTechnical Assessment CoordinationValue EngineeringSupplier Capability Assessment
Soft Skills
Collaboration with Technical StakeholdersEffective CommunicationProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
APQPPPAPIncotermsSupplier Management Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
Professional Procurement QualificationDegree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Supply Chain
Industry Keywords
Electromechanical AssembliesProduction EquipmentSupply Chain ManagementCommercial ManagementSafety-Critical Hardware
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build direct-material sourcing strategies for critical components, assemblies, tooling and production equipment.
- Translate approved unit demand and BOM revisions into dated component requirements, shortages and order recommendations.
- Maintain material plans, purchase-order coverage, supplier acknowledgements, delivery dates, shortage status and kit readiness during pilot builds and pre-production ramp.
- Map capable suppliers, issue information and quotation requests, lead commercial due diligence, and coordinate technical, quality and manufacturing assessments.
- Lead competitive supplier selection by evaluating total cost, capacity, lead time, quality, resilience and scalability.
- Negotiate pricing, minimum order quantities, lead times, payment terms, capacity commitments, tooling ownership, warranties, intellectual-property protections, liability and delivery terms.
- Own costed bills of materials, should-cost and total-cost models, supplier cost challenges, value-engineering opportunities and cost-down roadmaps.
- Convert approved material requirements into purchase orders, expedite constrained items and resolve supplier issues threatening pilot and low-volume build dates.
- Identify supply-chain risks and develop mitigation, dual-source and recovery plans.
- Own supplier onboarding, approved-supplier records, contract documentation, commercial master data and purchasing controls.
- Maintain supplier performance and shortage reporting and establish scalable planning and purchasing processes.
- Define commercial responsibility boundaries and sourcing arrangements for a future Tier 1 manufacturing partner in North America.
- Work across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality and Finance and engage suppliers directly.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience taking sourcing requirements from incomplete engineering inputs through supplier research, quotation, evaluation, negotiation, contracting and launch.
- Experience sourcing engineered components, electronics, electromechanical assemblies, fabricated parts, tooling or production equipment.
- Ability to interpret bills of materials, drawings, specifications, manufacturing processes and cost drivers, and turn technical uncertainty into clear sourcing requirements.
- Experience comparing bids, assessing supplier capability and risk, and negotiating pricing, lead times, payment terms, capacity, tooling, warranties, liability, intellectual property and change control.
- Comfortable using reliable data to build cost comparisons, analyse supplier performance and manage supply, capacity, obsolescence, financial, geographic and logistics risks.
- A degree, professional procurement qualification or equivalent practical experience in engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement or commercial management.
- Comfortable working with technical and senior stakeholders and travelling to suppliers when required.
- Useful: sourcing experience involving power electronics, magnetics, transformers, high-voltage equipment, grid products, energy infrastructure or another safety-critical hardware environment.
- Useful: experience supporting engineering builds and low-volume production, then resetting commercial terms and the supply base as design maturity and demand increase.
- Useful: experience defining component and CEM sourcing responsibilities, supporting manufacturing transfer and establishing transparent commercial arrangements with contract manufacturers.
- Useful: working knowledge of Incoterms, duties, customs, logistics, currency exposure, export controls and sourcing across the UK, Europe, North America and Asia.
- Useful: experience working with Quality and Engineering on first-article approval, supplier process assessment, corrective action, APQP, PPAP or equivalent supplier-development methods.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Employee Option Plan: You get equity in IONATE, so as we succeed so do you.
- Private Medical & Dental Insurance: From day one, full, comprehensive private medical and dental cover through Bupa; option to add dependents.
- Company pension: A flexible, sustainable pension product.
- Career Development: Annual budget for professional development and career growth.
- Flexible working schedules: Flexibility for occasional work-from-home arrangements.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Slow travel: Extra 2 slow travel days per year for lower-carbon travel.