Procurement Manager

A little about J L Lennard

Our corporate logo highlights that J L Lennard has a long and proud history of providing premium commercial equipment solutions to our global blue-chip customers in the food and packaging industries. Not only do we sell the equipment we also provide top quality service and programmed maintenance plans over a full life cycle of support. We are specialists in our market segment.

Our goal is to become the premium supplier of food and packaging equipment in the Asia Pacific region as we grow.

Our values include treating our staff with respect, exceeding our customer’s expectations, building solid relationships with our business partners and ensuring customer satisfaction above our own profit, all in the name of achieving excellence.

What about the role?

We have become an employer of choice with the average tenure of our staff being greater than 20 years. However, a new opportunity has arisen for a high achieving Procurement Manager with bold new ideas to join our ranks as a valued team leader.

The role will report to the Chief Financial Officer and will lead and mentor the procurement team from our head office in Silverwater.

But most importantly it’s about you… 

• We listen and value your ideas since we want you to help us to manage our procurement function in the best way you can imagine.
• You are a people person who inspires high achievement and dedication as a true leader of a small team.
• You are bored with just the same process every day and want to continuously find improvements in the way we order and import our products so that we can service our customers better. You are inspired by your own drive for continuous improvement.
• Your values are our values, including being family minded, striving for exceptional service and a solid commitment to a critically important role without our team.
• You will look good as you proudly wear our corporate uniform.

The skills & experience you will need to succeed:

• Good English language communication and negotiation skills are essential in order to liaise with local and overseas suppliers in Eurasia and the USA, Australian shipping agents and when communicating with fellow team mates;
• Extensive, hands-on, best practise experience in all areas of procurement including: purchase orders, product consumption and replenishment analysis, shipment tracking, customs clearance, landed costing and assisting with warehousing in the end-to-end logistics process;
• A thorough understanding of container management and costing utilising a modern ERP system and intermediate skills in MS Excel;
• Proven experience in shipment cost savings through more efficient shipment management which aligns with our pre-determined budgeted cost targets;
• Attention to detail with a very organised approach to ensure that strict shipment deadlines are tracked and met;
• Sound people management skills and knowing how inspire the best results from your team;
• An optimistic and positive “can do” attitude just to ensure it gets done.