About us
The Outsourced Procurement team manages and develops our Development and Manufacturing Partners from contractual and business perspective with engagement and support from cross-functional teams and key stakeholders
Responsibilities
This role is pivotal in ensuring smooth operations with our manufacturing partners. The Outsourced Procurement Manager will manage commercial contracts and cost negotiations with Tier 1 suppliers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver business objectives.
- Act as a key liaison for managing relationships between Dyson and assigned suppliers.
- Coordinate and drive regular and ad hoc tasks with suppliers and contract manufacturers, ensuring objectives are met within deadlines.
- Support internal meetings and discussions with Operations, Commercial, Finance, Engineering, Project, and Technical teams to align on company objectives.
- Respond to inquiries and tasks from internal and external stakeholders promptly and effectively.
- Contribute to operational decisions by providing sound commercial advice.
- Support cost optimization activities and assist in cost-down initiatives with internal and external engagement.
- Collaborate on contract negotiations and revisions for Tier 1 suppliers.
- Assist in resolving issues and claims, escalating where necessary.
- Foster teamwork and maintain strong relationships across internal and external stakeholders.
Key deliverables
- Achieve cost savings and optimizations through effective negotiations.
- Ensure timely completion of tasks, issues, and communications while meeting objectives.
- Maintain strong supplier relationships and act as a point of contact for escalations.
- Demonstrate adaptability in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Tasks, issues, claims, communications are completed within the given timeframe, while achieving the objectives
- Ability to work in a fast pace ever changing environment to deliver optimal solutions at prescribed time frame
- Demonstrated leadership by providing meaningful resolutions and guiding both internal and external parties in resolving issues
- People Developer, at Dyson we believe that everyone is a key component in the team, and we continue to develop people even as we deliver programs
About you
- Degree in Engineering with at least 7-10 years’ experience within the procurement function
- Strong commercial background within a Manufacturing / Engineering environment
- Experience working with ODM/JDM suppliers.
- Good understanding of procurement processes and legal regulations.
- Good knowledge & experience of product R&D and innovation with demonstrable experience of working with commercial teams
- Strong communication skills—able to present updates and challenges clearly in spoken, written, and presentation formats.
- Effective problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams.
- Capable in planning and project coordination.
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills.
- Comfortable with a fast-paced and intellectually challenging work environment, being resilient and able to handle pressure
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
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What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.
Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.
Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world.
The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
