Purchasing Manager

Join Our Team as a Purchasing Manager! 

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for procurement and supply chain management? Waters is seeking a dynamic Purchasing Manager to lead our procurement activities and ensure operational excellence. This role is pivotal in supporting our Spares, Production, New Product Design, and overall spend in line with MRP.

Key Responsibilities:

• Procurement Excellence: Manage procurement activities to meet build plans and best practices, ensuring price, quantity, and delivery standards.
• Supplier Management: Oversee business relationships with suppliers to ensure continuity of supply and manage risks.
• Cost Saving Initiatives: Drive cost-saving projects and support global procurement in achieving financial performance goals.
• Operational Efficiency: Ensure supply chain functions are productive and efficient by setting and measuring goals.
• Data Integrity: Maintain master data accuracy for optimal material supply and inventory levels.
• Team Leadership: Manage and develop the purchasing team, setting objectives, monitoring progress, and supporting professional growth.
• Inventory Management -Ensure Master Data integrity and accuracy. Management of raw material master data to ensure MRP system and processes can ensure adequate material supply and optimum inventory levels, through MOQ and Leadtime controls

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary: Along with a flexible working environment.
• Generous Benefits: Including 25 days of holiday, employer pension contributions, life assurance, income protection, and private medical insurance.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities to grow, develop, and contribute within a supportive team.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor of Business Studies or equivalent, IIPM Certification, APICS Certified, Lean Qualification (Green/Black Belt) preferred.
• Experience: Extensive experience in a high-complexity industrial organization, strong SAP expertise, and proven track record in negotiation and cost-saving projects.
• Skills: Excellent interpersonal, organizational, presentation, and communication skills, both written and oral. Strong problem-solving capability and project management skills.

Competencies:

• Authentic: Operates with integrity, transparency, and humility.
• Enterprise Minded: Acts as a true company owner to advance Waters' interests.
• Outside-In Thinker: Understands the broader Waters MS organization.
• Agile: Balances daily requirements and delivers results.
• People Focused: Works effectively across the organization.

Additional Information:

• Travel: UK and Europe as required.

Join Waters and be part of a team that values integrity, innovation, and excellence. Apply today and take the next step in your career!

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.