Materials Specialist

Job Title: Technical Supplier Cost Professional

Location: Hybrid, 3-4 days per week in Crawley

About us: Consultants on Demand: a consultancy start-up with global backing.

Imagine Consultants on Demand: a consultancy service offered by Randstad Sourceright across all our clients in the UK and Ireland. Imagine enjoying the dynamic culture of being a consultant across many industries and markets whilst being part of a global company in a fixed term role. It’s a start-up-like environment backed by global security and continuous development.

You can shape your career with us - and grow - by getting the opportunity to work with a number of our clients as well as having access to the continuous learning and development opportunities that RSR has to offer. We encourage our consultants to become pioneers in this space, helping us to evolve the offering for both our clients and our talent.

Imagine doing this together with a community of professionals from different backgrounds and expertise within the consultancy and across the overall RSR global community. Imagine Consultants on Demand.

Consultants on Demand sits within Randstad Sourceright: the global talent strategic partner specialising in talent management solutions including Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Managed Service Programs (MSP), Integrated Talent Solutions including this brand-new consultancy offering.

Role

• Accountable for managing on-budget delivery of maintenance overhauls and repairs.
• Accountable for managing effective supplier interfaces; driving efficient supply chain stock rotation and adherence to contract deliverables.
• Accountable for maintaining missing and damaged (M&D) cost accuracy through upholding supplier obligations.
• Responsible for driving commercial challenges relating to out of course charges vs budget.
• Responsible for identifying opportunities for cost savings and avoidance.
• Responsible for documenting all developed processes for managing M&D with responsible partners.
• Drive continuous improvement throughout all interfaces and operations.

Key Responsibilities

Supplier Relationships, Accountable

Develop solid working relationships with all suppliers. Represent the interests of the Material, Performance, Project, and Commercial Management to the supplier. Perform regular site visits across localised (UK) supplier sites to drive effective engagement.

Financial Management, Responsible

Manage day to day operations in line with agreed KPIs. Ensure short-range budget objectives are met or exceeded and identify criteria for monitoring progress and measuring success. Ensure effective cost monitoring and compliance through close supplier management. Report actual vs budget vs forecast values to operation, commercial and project teams.

Rolling Stock, Responsible

Appreciation of rolling stock components and definitions. Awareness of some technical functions of rolling stock. Driven to obtain a comprehensive understanding of components within M&D control management.

Health, Safety & Environment, Accountable

Implement safe systems and controls within your area of responsibility.

Understand, implement, and comply with the Rolling Stock HSEW policies. Communicate health and safety responsibilities to your team (or virtual team) and ensure employees raise issues and participate in implementation of agreed changes. Fully participate and engage in RL behavioural safety agenda to ensure you and your team work safely. Take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions that may have an environmental impact. Accept personal responsibility to take care of ourselves and any others affected by one’s own acts or omissions.

Behaviours, Accountable

Role model behaviour and values consistent with Values, Rolling Stock Behaviours and Business Conduct Guidelines.

Project Management, Responsible

Report project cost deliverables to respective project managers. Obtain direction in interest of the project success from the respective project manager. Provide input at the project evaluation stage, to drive advancement of the project-specific process for suppliers, ensuring high transparency over the whole supply process in the project. Utilise tacit knowledge to input on the enhancement of specific tasks for the next overhaul period.

Continuous Improvement/Quality, Responsible

Actively participate in our 3is improvement programme and drive implementation of improvements from the team. Continuously develop cross functional and departmental processes. Embed CI practices

throughout productive teams. Utilises technical knowledge from the railway business into the missing and damaged materials process to be able to effectively discuss claims with the supplier.

Compliance, Accountable

Monitor compliance to meet internal control procedures and take appropriate corrective action. Ensure awareness and understanding of compliance policies and ‘Tell Us’ ethos. Implement in areas of responsibility.

Other, Responsible

This role profile may vary from time to time in accordance with changes to business needs. Your annual objective setting with your line manager will outline any additional responsibilities to meet business requirements or individual development needs for the forthcoming financial year.

Depending on your site, you may also be required to cover the following activity:

Project/fleet cost data analysis

Stakeholders & Interfaces:

Head of Performance and Life Cycle Management, Fleet Delivery Manager, Fleet Head of Materials, Materials Manager, Project Manager, Commercial Manager, Planning Manager, Head of Production, Production Managers, Technical Manager and Suppliers.

Experience Required

• Good understanding of health and safety legislation.
• Knowledge of Rolling Stock maintenance processes.
• Ability to understand, manage and enforce supplier contract deliverables.
• Experience of managing supplier/customer relationships against contractual delivery.
• Engineering background, appreciation of maintenance practices through qualification or experience.
• Good knowledge of IT systems/software, able to read, interpret and manage spreadsheets and project tools.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Strong organisation/planning skills.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, comfortable with the review and development of management information.
• Engineering technical awareness.
• Commercial experience.

Desired

• Engineering/Financial degree or equivalent qualification or experience.
• Advanced understanding of supplier contract management.
• Advanced understanding of project management principles.

What we offer:

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalised to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

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