Total 4 Senior Executive job vacancies in Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 7LS

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

Buyer / Senior Buyer - Industrial Manufacturing

Our client ar currently looking to recruit an experienced and pro-active, CIPS Qualified Buyer / Senior Buyer for their Purchasing team. Reporting to the Purchasing Manager you will be responsible for managing the procurement of materials and services, maintaining supplier relationships and driving cost-saving initiatives. You will work closely with internal departments to meet material requirements and ensure supply chain performance aligns with company expectations.

Buyer / Senior Buyer - Main Responsibilities:

• Raise and amend purchase orders via SAP, ensuring alignment with Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system demands.
• Update and maintain accurate material pricing in SAP, ensuring records are current and reflect the latest agreements.
• Liaise and maintain strong communication with suppliers, fostering long-term, mutually beneficial relationships.
• Negotiate prices, terms, and conditions with suppliers to ensure the best possible value for the company.
• Monitor and manage On-Time In-Full (OTIF) expectations from suppliers, addressing any issues that arise.
• Prepare formal tenders via the Request for Quotation (RFQ) and New Product Development (NPD) processes, ensuring competitive pricing and service.
• Lead and participate in process improvement initiatives, working towards streamlining procurement operations.
• Drive savings initiatives, striving to meet or exceed annual cost-saving targets.
• Handle and resolve invoice discrepancies, supplier queries, and internal concerns in a timely and efficient manner.
• Provide detailed and prompt responses to internal and external customer concerns, following established procedures.

Buyer / Senior Buyer - Skills & Experience

• Previous experience working as a Buyer / Senior Buyer within an industrial / general manufacturing environment
• Hold or be studying towards CIPS qualification (Level 4 minimum is required)
• SAP experience would be highly desirable
• Self-motivated with the ability to work on your own initiative
• Ability to build and manage strong working relationships
• Ability to identify both short-term savings and longer-term opportunities to add value
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to leverage cost savings whilst maintaining service levels

For further details on this opportunity contact Jason Wallis in the first instance.

Leadership Provide consistent, strong leadership to the clinical staff within the services. Provide supervision of the clinical team, supporting and developing the team and individuals clinical skills, embedding clinical supervision. Proactive approach to reduce complaints and clinical incidents. Acting as a mentor for junior staff and taking a proactive approach to professional development. Organise, coordinate, and lead the provision of the team. Support the continuing development of the FCIUS supporting other services as appropriate. Acting as liaison with Fylde Coast Medical Services (as they are main contract holders). Work alongside the Management Team, to implement and support change. Lead by example, developing a culture of openness, learning and peer support. Workforce Plan, develop and maintain a competent and skilled clinical workforce to deliver a safe and effective service. Be accountable for all the clinical team through a clear structure of line management. Lead in the development of staff, providing constructive and relevant positive feedback. Ensure a schedule of annual appraisals and three yearly revalidations are carried out. Work alongside HR and other members of the management team plan and recruit appropriate staff members, in line with the recruitment policy. Oversee the clinical rota and ensure appropriate plans and rotas are in place. Ensure robust comprehensive individualised induction process for all new staff ensuring mandatory training requirements are fulfilled. Ensure sessional/temporary staff have robust induction plans in place. Work alongside the Training Lead, to ensure all our staff are supported in their development. Clinical Governance Support the work of our Service Leads and Service Manager in providing Clinical Reflections in a timely manner, for all complaints. Attend and participate in the monthly Clinical Governance meeting and actively support the planned audit cycle. Support the collection of data to assist the completion of FCIUCS KPI reports. Support a culture where reporting issues and incidents is commonplace and encouraged to ensure team and organisational learning. Using Ulysses to ensure timely reporting and monitoring of incidents and complaints. Take responsibility for the safeguarding lead for the service supporting the named GP Lead. Clinical Responsibilities: Provide expert clinical assessment, screening treatment services and health care advice. Assess, treat, and advise patients presenting with health care / nursing needs. Ensure the team are performing to a high standard and in a timely fashion. Monitor the teams safe clinical effectiveness. When required ensure patients are referred on to other members of the primary health care team or secondary care as necessary and support and guide others as required. Ensure all practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence of individuals and to acknowledge limitations. Assist/perform minor procedures. In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the duties and responsibilities associated with an expert practitioner working within primary unscheduled care. Develop and maintain clinical/nursing policies, procedures, and protocols. Ensure any patient information is up-to-date and produced in appropriate formats. Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations, treatments and attendances are recorded. Review NMP across the team, inducting new NMPs as needed. Ensure clinical supervision is embedded across the clinical team. Ensure that a robust training & development package is in existence and constantly evolving to meet the needs of the service and of our employees.

Senior NetOps Engineer

Pay up to £68,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

• Would you love the opportunity to install, maintain, upgrade, and continuously improve a large government organisation's operating environment - powering one of the largest digital transformations in Europe?

• Are you someone who could maintain the ongoing reliability, performance and support of our infrastructure?

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Senior NetOps Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• The ability to design, implement, administer, and support infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as: AWS, Azure and OCI
• Ensures that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate Network problems.
• Takes accountability of issues that occur and is proactive in searching for potential problems.
• Significant experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code, CI/CD pipelines. Gitlab, Ansible, Python, Terraform.

You and your role

As a Senior NetOps Engineer you will have the ongoing responsibility for the full range of products that make up Network Services.

The role will involve creating and developing our DevOps/ NetOps culture in the team as we transition to new ways of working.

Working in collaboration with a range of internal/external partners, stakeholders and customers you will ensure the operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability, and quality of DWP Networks.

You will actively manage the work backlog and develop reliability improvements as well as leading initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £68,517.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

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