- Salary:Up to £50,000 DOE
- Full Time
- Permanent
Who we are: SubSea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.
What we offer:
- Pension Contribution – Pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice.
- Annual Bonus Scheme – Eligibility to participate in the company’s annual discretionary bonus scheme, linked to individual and company performance.
- Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
- Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
- Wellbeing Day – An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
- Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
- Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes.
- Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
- Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
- Offsite parking available.
Responsibilities will include:
- Procure a combination of build to print and build to specification goods and services in a largely production ERP environment but must be able to work with engineering teams to support the definition of requirements ahead of formal definition in a BOM
- Creation and management of purchase orders including order acknowledgement, expediting and where required alternate solutions/intervention to resolve supplier issues.
- Monitor and report supplier performance against contracted requirements including expediting of open Purchase Orders, updating stakeholders and the ERP system,
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks to minimise project delays.
- Negotiate with suppliers to secure favourable contract solutions including negotiation on pricing, scope and terms and conditions as required
- Sourcing suppliers/third party solutions working in conjunction with engineering teams where required/needed
- Where required able to understand and work with engineering teams around technical artefacts (drawings, specifications, statements of work) to ensure compliance, to identify risks and issues.
- Experience working within and contributing to processes such as NPIs, concessions, deviations and change management in a technical/production environment
- Able to build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders as well as suppliers
- Able to work collaboratively across functions and teams to achieve business objectives (e.g. technical, stores/logistics, operations, quality)
- Provide progress updates and supply chain feedback to internal stakeholders.
- Support supplier audits as and when required.
- Support the Procurement Manager in achieving departmental goals and undertake any other duties as appropriate within their competence, as required
Qualifications and Experience:
- Significant experience in Procurement and Supply Chain Management
- Demonstrable experience gained in a European production environment working with hitech engineering, ideally maritime and including R&D; supporting delivery to deadlines on projects preferable within the marine engineering industry.
- Strong commercial acumen with excellent negotiation skills.
- Experience working with an ERP system, such as Infor LN.
- Willingness to support and embrace change in a fast-paced environment.
- Team-player with key communication skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Educated to degree level or a minimum of 10 years’ experience in a relevant field.
- Defence sector experience would be beneficial
- MCIPS qualification is preferred but not essential
Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with UK National security clearance required for certain roles.*
Values: Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.
What we expect from you:
- Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
- Initiative and independent working
- Honesty and integrity
- Business and commercial awareness
- Agility, adaptability and continuous development
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
- Please note that all offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre-employment checking stages.
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