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As Operational Procurement Manager, you will be at the forefront of leading and inspiring a team (circa 12 direct reports) through a significant transformation in how operational purchasing is approached. Your primary mission will be to foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, moving the organization away from legacy, offline systems and towards a formalised, integrated procurement environment. You will empower your team to embrace new systems and processes, ensuring that every member understands their role in delivering efficient, transparent, and reliable procurement outcomes.

This role demands a hands-on leader who excels at people management and is passionate about driving cultural change. You will guide your team through daily operational buying challenges, champion best practices, and nurture a mindset that values proactive problem-solving and open communication. By setting clear expectations and providing the support needed for growth, you will help build a resilient, agile procurement function that is ready to meet the demands of a dynamic manufacturing environment.

Key to success in this role will be your ability to find the delicate balance between reducing inventory liability/capital whilst maintaining adequate availability, ensuring production plans can be successful met at all times. You’ll work closely with the materials and inventory teams to identify trends and patterns relating to the SKU portfolio, adjusting your buying strategies accordingly.

This role is based onsite at our Swords facility with occasional work from home opportunities (1 day a week/fortnight depending on business needs) . Relocation support is available for the successful candidate should they currently live outside of Ireland/Northern Ireland.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

Whilst every day in this role will present unique challenges, the core tasks and responsibilities you’ll undertake are:

• Develop and maintain the site’s operational purchasing programs and processes, in determining what to replenish, when to replenish and how much to replenish.
• Be directly accountable for above in respect of material shortages, material values and volumes
• Develop and implement best practice use of systems functionality (SAP, PP/MRP etc) to support the timely replenishment of raw materials and indirect products and services to support manufacturing
• Ensure that purchasing controls are maintained in line with Siemens Healthineers Procurement policies and procedures and within the Medical Device and Regulatory Standards ISO 13485
• Monitor and evaluate supplier performance and ensure corrective actions are taken to address performance issues in line with Siemens Healthineers global procedures
• Work closely with Logistics to optimize inbound freight charges and thereafter associated physical storage and movement costs (3PL)
• Work with Strategic Procurement to design and drive raw material reduction initiatives that favourably influences inventory/working capital
• Work with Manufacturing and Engineering functions to deliver cut-over of engineering changes reducing scrap wastage
• Work closely with Joint SCM/Quality Lead to ensure programmes that drive supplier compliance are effective and positively alter supplier performance/behaviour
• Work with Joint SCM/Finance Lead to provide operational oversight of procurement processes ensuring financial compliance re GRIR, PO GL cost centre allocation etc
• Support the execution of Strategic Procurement initiatives in areas of supplier selection, dual sourcing, risk management and part transfers
• Play a key role in NPI/NPD

Your qualifications and experience:

• Direct deep experience of managing an inventory planning/buying function in a time pressurized, significant volume SKU (component) environment
• Bachelors degree in Business, Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline (QQI level 8) is highly advantageous but not essential if you can demonstrate suitable experience.
• Proven professional experience within an inventory management/buying function within a manufacturing environment. Whilst this is preferred, we’d also be interested to hear from those with a retail/FMCG buying background as there are likely to be a number of relevant transferable skills/experiences.

Your attributes and skills:

To be successful in this role it’s expected that you’ll be able to demonstrate the majority of the following skills and experience:

• An experienced people manager, capable of building strong and influential relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Demonstrable team building skills, including team design, team tasking, function KPI construction, coaching/mentoring and succession planning
• Experienced in system utilization to enable key operational decision to be made transparently and effectively
• Strong management skills and the ability to initiate and lead supplier improvement/optimisation projects on a cross-functional basis.
• Ability to develop and grow a team of procurement professionals to meet current and future needs of a progressive manufacturing business
• Broad knowledge of procurement methods, tools, processes and reports
• Strong financial and cost analysis skills
• Proven experience of working with SAP would be highly advantageous but isn’t essential

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Bonus scheme
• Private health insurance (after probation)
• 25 days annual leave
• Contributory pension
• Christmas Voucher of €550
• Life Assurance of 4x Salary

Who we are:

We are a team of more than 71,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio, spanning from in-vitro and in-vivo diagnostics to image-guided therapy and innovative cancer care, is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work:

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

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