Purchasing and Product Manager – Network Connectivity Products
Job Title: Purchasing and Product ManagerLocation: BournemouthSalary: Competitive, depending on experienceContract: Full-time, permanentWorking Pattern: Hybrid
About the Role
We are looking for a commercially focused Purchasing and Product Manager to manage thesourcing, purchasing, and development of our network connectivity product range. Thiscritical role within the business involves all elements of product management and purchasingincluding supplier negotiation and relationship management, inventory planning andoptimisation, product reporting and analysis, industry and product regulatory compliance. We envisage you will allocate 90% of your time to product management.
You will partner with suppliers, strategic customers, and cross-functional teams to optimise inventory performance, ensuring a resilient and efficient supply chain that supports business growth, meets evolving customer demand, enhances profitability, and delivers consistent product availability.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage all purchasing and product management activity for the business.Source products from our authorised suppliers whilst seeking opportunitieselsewhere
- Negotiate pricing, lead times, terms, and availability.
- Monitor stock levels, sales trends, customer demand, supplier availability, marketshortages, allocation status, obsolescence and lifecycle status to inform purchasingdecisions
- Review and introduce product ranges to support customer demand and commercialgrowth.
- Work collaboratively with sales, operations, warehouse, finance, quality, andmarketing colleagues
- Manage supplier relationships, including price reviews, performance monitoring, leadtime management, contract terms, service levels, and issue resolution.
- Analyse product performance, pricing, margins, stock movement, competitor activity,and market trends to support commercial decision-making.
- Manage comprehensive datasets for the entire product range, facilitating globaldigital proliferation of our product data. This includes product descriptions, technicalspecifications, datasheets, images, videos and compliance.
- Involved in sales price list creation.
- Resolve supplier, delivery, pricing, quality, specification, documentation, andcompliance queries in a timely and professional manner.
- Ensure purchasing and product management activities comply with the company’sISO 9001 Quality Management System and support continuous improvementinitiatives. This includes Supplier performance reviews
Required Skills and Experience
- Previous experience in purchasing, procurement, product management, or a relatedcommercial role.
- Experience using ERP, stock control, purchasing, or product information systems is essential
- Strong Excel skills are essential
- Strong analytical ability
- Experience of stock control, pricing, margins, minimum order quantities, lead times,supplier performance, and product profitability.
- Awareness of component lifecycle management, obsolescence risk, allocation,counterfeit risk, supplier quality, and compliance requirements.
- High attention to detail when managing technical product information, part numbers,datasheets, supplier references, pricing, and compliance records
- Confident communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
- Strong negotiation, supplier management, communication, and commercial decision-making skills.
- CIPS qualification or similar would be advantageous.
- Experience within network connectivity, electronic components, or a related technicalsector is highly desirable
Personal Attributes
- Commercially aware and proactive in identifying opportunities to improve purchasing performance and product profitability.
- Organised, accurate, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-pacedenvironment.
- Confident communicator with the ability to build effective relationships with suppliersand internal stakeholders.
- Analytical and detail-focused, with strong problem-solving skills.
- Adaptable and responsive to changing supply conditions, urgent customer
- requirements, and market availability.
- Professional, reliable, and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
Key Performance Indicators
- Product availability, stock accuracy, and order fulfilment performance.
- Supplier performance, including lead times, quality, documentation accuracy, servicelevels, and on-time delivery.
- Achievement of margin targets, purchasing savings, and cost avoidance.
- Value of excess, obsolete, slow-moving, or at-risk stock.
- Accuracy of part numbers, product information, supplier records, pricing, andcompliance data.
- Successful introduction and ongoing management of network connectivity productranges
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