Procurement Project Manager
6 – 9 Month Temporary Contract
37 Hour Week
Melksham
Up to c.£26 Per Hour
Are you an experienced Project Manager with a Manufacturing background?
Our client is looking to recruit a Procurement Project Manager on a 6 – 9 month temporary contract basis to focus on the delivery and coordination of procurement-related process improvement driven projects. You will be supporting the Procurement function through structured project management, data coordination and stakeholder engagement.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in enabling the function, allowing teams to focus on specialist strategic and operational procurement activity while ensuring that time sensitive transformation initiatives are delivered to plan. The mix of responsibilities will flex according to business priorities, maintaining a dynamic and responsive project-based remit.
Key Responsibilities
Process Improvement Project Management & Reporting
Project Delivery & Coordination
- Lead and coordinate defined procurement process improvement and KPI-related projects in line with approved business cases.
- Maintain project plans, timelines, trackers and governance materials, ensuring milestones and outcomes are clearly monitored.
- Coordinate cross functional stakeholders across Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Planning and external suppliers.
- Provide regular progress updates and escalation where risks to delivery or KPI achievement are identified.
Key Project Areas Include:
Achieved Lead Time Reduction
- Coordinate and track supplier communications focused on lead time reduction.
- Maintain project planner cards and supporting documentation.
- Execute and control mass SAP updates aligned with approved changes.
Digital Supplier Integration
- Act as local administrative lead to standardise process across commodities.
- Support supplier onboarding, communication and issue resolution.
- Interface with internal users in Purchasing to ensure adoption and data usage.
Obsolescence Management
- Refresh and consolidate obsolescence data using available supply chain information.
- Track items through formal change control processes.
Reporting & Data Management
- Support Digitalisation teams in the development of Procurement automation tools.
- Develop and maintain project and KPI reports to support management visibility and decision making.
- Ensure data accuracy and integrity across SAP and associated trackers.
- Provide structured insight and recommendations based on analysed project data.
Qualifications & Experience
- Proven experience within Project Management and ideally within Manufacturing.
- Experience in procurement or supply chain a great advantage.
- Strong analytical and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Proficiency in SAP and reporting tools (e.g. Excel, Power BI).
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience supporting digital tools and system implementations is desirable.
Benefits
- Opportunity to play a central role in delivering time critical procurement transformation initiatives.
- Exposure to cross functional and supplier facing projects with tangible KPI impact.
- Development of project management, digital integration and data driven procurement skills.
- Contribution to setting foundations for a more lean, digitally enabled procurement function.
Thanks for your application! Successful candidates will be contacted within 7 working days of their applications. Should you not hear from us within this time, please assume that your application was unsuccessful on this occasion.
