Procurement Project Lead   SF Recruitment are working with an innovative automotive business who are engaged in some exciting manufacturing projects, to recruit a procurement project lead. High value, low volume, bespoke manufacturing environment. Job Purpose:  To be the conduit between the Special Projects, Purchasing & Engineering teams. To represent the requirements of the business, and scope of the project, to both Engineering & Purchasing whist maintaining project costs, and evolution of deliverables, to report out to the Senior Management Team, & Board, when required.  Main Duties and Responsibilities:   Identify Project scope, alongside Special Projects Manager.  Compile project deliverables, from Purchasing & Engineering, alongside Special Projects Manager.  Weekly meetings, with Engineers, to ensure Purchasing are represented during Engineering phase of project scope, thus enabling supplier selection to be from current, and future, supply base.   Facilitate prototype sourcing to meet early build phases  Ensures supplier nominations are on time and to budget  Weekly meetings, with Buyers, to feed all project requirements into Purchasing & ensure correct supplier selection, for project scope.   To represent all costs within the project team from conception, through all gateways, to final build.  To monitor, record & maintain cost due to Engineering changes for all suppliers.   To process all PCNs once the Buyers have approved the supplier selection & cost.   Following supplier selection, maintain supplier relationships and review weekly project status, with team & Supplier.   Escalate any issues to Special Projects, Purchasing & Engineering Manager to ensure swift resolution.   Identify potential long lead time items (and other purchasing related risks) at the planning stages of a project and develop mitigation strategies accordingly.  Maintain appropriate levels of project documentation on behalf of Purchasing and look for opportunities to improve the overall process and associated tools.  Report out, to the business, the project status when required.  Skillset requirements: Strong Project/NPI procurement experience within a manufacturing environment.   Automotive experience desirable but not essential   Project mgmt. skillset within an engineering environment