Procurement Specialist

**Your strong engineering aptitude, commercial acumen, and influencing skills are the key to success**:

- **9 month secondment.**

**About the role**

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Supply Chain team as a Procurement Specialist in the Procurement Sourcing function. This is for a 9month secondment period.

The role is exciting and varied. The key stakeholders for this role include the engineering, manufacturing and supply chain teams. Your knowledge and understanding of the engineering development process and ability to influence these stakeholders will see you succeed in this role.

**Key Responsibilities and Outcomes**
- Support the engineering development teams to deliver new products to the market in a timely and cost effective manner.
- Reduce supply chain risk by developing dual sourcing material strategies.
- Taking a lead role in solving commercial issues that may arise.
- Category knowledge, price negotiations, contracts, project management.
- Identify internal and external cost drivers to understand our cost structure and leverage strategies where appropriate
- Work with key suppliers on new and existing business to deliver productivity gains

**Skills and Experience**
- Relevant tertiary qualification, Engineering preferred
- Procurement experience preferred, ideally within the medical device or high-tech design/manufacturing environments. Your engineering background coupled with your interest and motivation to advance yourself within procurement to grow further will be what we’re really looking for.
- Negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Sound project management skills
- Global commercial awareness
- Ability to identify issues and areas for improvement through analysis
- Strong commercial acumen and business understanding
- Ability to manage both internal and customer relationships
- Team orientated, with strong relationship and interpersonal skills

**Company and Culture**

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys seeing results from their efforts and who gains satisfaction from being part of an open and friendly team environment producing innovative medical devices that make a difference to people's lives.

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited is a thriving, cutting-edge medical device company with a wide and growing range of highly innovative healthcare products. We have manufacturing facilities in New Zealand and Mexico, and sales offices and distributors operating in 120 countries globally.