Procurement Category Specialist
CDE Global is the leading provider of wet processing equipment for quarries, mines and recycling operations on the global market. The CDE equipment range has applications across a wide range of materials and is delivering significant efficiencies in the construction and recycling, mining, specialist industrial sands and environmental sectors.
Working across 5 industry sectors and 8 strategic regions globally, CDE has been co-creating with customers for over 20 years. The team has been widely recognised for challenging the paradigm of traditional washing equipment supply and delivering collaborative, imaginative and unique processing systems. Our team thrives in an environment where people are genuinely empowered to lead and deliver highly strategic and innovative projects.
CDE Global is now seeking to appoint a Procurement Sourcing Specialist to oversee the group’s sourcing process. This role will be critical in the transformation of CDE’s supply chain and efficient delivery of our solutions across the Mining, Construction & Demolition Waste Recycling, Environmental, Industrial Sands and Sands & Aggregates sectors.
Reporting directly to the Head of Supply Chain, you will have a key role within the Procurement Team and significant input into the strategic direction of the department.
This position is based in Cookstown, Northern Ireland but will require frequent travel as business dictates to supplier sites and the company’s manufacturing site in Monkstown.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
Develop and implement category strategies, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring that procurement processes align with the company’s cost, quality, and delivery objectives.
Partner with key business stakeholders to ensure sourced material and services meet the needs of the business.
Collaborate with Engineering to develop repeatable or standard product structures to drive simplification in product allocation across the supply base.
Conduct market analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and risks within various categories. Monitoring global market conditions that could impact supply chain stability and proactively address potential disruptions.
Actively searching for new capacities locally and regionally, sourcing for new technologies and capabilities in the market.
Manage supplier relationships and opportunities for cost-out and product/supplier improvement, while ensuring production, delivery, and capacity requirements across all direct material categories.
Develop and execute strategies for sourcing, supplier management, negotiation, productivity, and customer and supplier relationships.
Ensure that CDE’s procurement practices meet with all regulatory compliance requirements, identify and address gaps.
Conduct supplier selection and validation, establishing pricing structures with key suppliers assessing their effectiveness and ability to scale to the size and pace of CDE.
Perform detailed cost analysis of components and manufacturing processes used by our suppliers to ensure highest quality at the lowest cost solution.
Negotiate with external suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Conduct problem resolution and settle disputes, develop win/win solutions, and promote positive relations.
Identify potential risks within the supply chain and develop mitigation strategies, ensure suppliers comply with regulatory requirements, company policies, and ethical standards.
Achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction.
Negotiate contracts to include pricing, terms, lead times to optimize total value of ownership.
Collaborate effectively across different organizational levels, sites, functions, businesses, and regions to realize sourcing goals and objectives.
Act as Procurement liaison for specified new product launches and manage corresponding sourcing activities to meet project cost and timeline goals.
Any other ad hoc duties that may be required.
Other
To adhere to CDE policy and practice.
To carry out any other duties within reason and capability associated with this role.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Essential
The successful candidate will have:
A Bachelor's or Graduate's Degree in engineering, supply chain or business, or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated negotiation, problem solving, and leadership skills.
Experience with ERP systems.
Comfortable onboarding, collaborating, and decision making in relation to supplier selection.
Experience with RFP/RFI systems and processes.
A continuous improvement mindset.
The ability to manage a robust pipeline and pay attention to detail.
Critical thinking ability and excellent communication skills.
A minimum of 5 years procurement experience within the Engineering/materials handling industry.
Desirable
Experience in the Engineering / materials handling industry
IFS experience
APICS Certification/ CIPS
CDE are a global company and welcome applicants from all countries and backgrounds. Desirable criteria may be used for shortlisting. The Company reserves the right to vary criteria at the shortlisting stage.
What you will need
Required criteria
- • A Bachelor's or Graduate's Degree in engineering, supply chain or business, or equivalent experience.
- • Demonstrated negotiation, problem solving, and leadership skills.
- • Experience with ERP systems.
- • Comfortable onboarding, collaborating, and decision making in relation to supplier selection.
- • Experience with RFP/RFI systems and processes.
- • A continuous improvement mindset.
- • The ability to manage a robust pipeline and pay attention to detail.
- • Critical thinking ability and excellent communication skills.
- • A minimum of 5 years procurement experience within the Engineering/materials handling industry.
Desired criteria
- • Experience in the Engineering / materials handling industry
- • IFS experience
- • APICS Certification/ CIPS
Professional skills you’ll need for this job opportunity
Procurement
Sourcing
CDE Group
WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.
We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.
Our benefits
Health insurance
Vacation, Paid time off
Retirement plan and/or pension
Employee development programs
A diversity program
Opportunity to travel
Free parking
Cycle to work
Competitive salary
Long service recognition
Free parking or Discounted parking
Work With Charities
Social Opportunities
Employee Recognition Scheme
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