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Jessica Jairath

Stratford Upon Avon,warwickshre

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PERSONAL STATEMENT

Procurement and Project Manager who has managed budgets up to £370mn across Indirect and Direct Procurement greenfield projects. Led and delivered business plans for the implementation of sustainable and/or localised supply chain designs. Held roles to lead or support the approval of business and government funding to achieve mandated commercial and strategic plans.

Holds a track record of quantifiable results against business and personal objectives, demonstrable in KPIs such as: TCA/TCO, deployment of lean & efficient supply chains, continuous improvement, delivery against budgets/targets and to project deadlines under PRINCE.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Programme Procurement Manager

Forseven/Mclaren
Leamington Spa, West Midlands
11.2023 - Current
  • Recruited, trained & established a Programme Purchasing team of Senior Buyers, Junior Buyers & Adminstrative staff
  • Team's remit to project manage the Direct Procurement & Supply Quality Assurance departments through the vehicle gateway delivery framework, against a set of timed deliverables. Currently responsible for the delivery of 3 vehicle programmes.
  • Created and embedded process & procedures to enable Sourcing, Transactional & Contract delivery activity to meet compliance and Company policy.
  • Supported development of Procurement & Business operating procedures to ensure design, cost & timing change control
  • Currently establishing the Procurement launch team in Graz who are responsible for supporting the industrialisation of long lead, critical or complex supply chains into the manufacturing plant.


Management Consultant

H&Z
London & Remote
02.2023 - 09.2023
  • Part of H&Z's newly formed UK office. Manager level Procurement Consultant with two direct reports
  • Assigned to H&Zs biggest manufacturing Client. Part of a core team of 9 Management Consultants, responsible for identifying and delivering a 43mn EUR saving (to Profit & Loss) between 2023-2025.
  • Directly responsible for ascertaining opportunities to save 6mn EUR within the CAPEX commodity area across the Client's global manufacturing sites.
  • Responsible for the planning, communication and execution strategy vs. a project plan and regular internal/Client reporting under a programme management structure.

Procurement Delivery Manager

Arrival
Banbury, UK
04.2021 - 02.2023
  • Direct Procurement Programme manager project managing the sourcing & delivery of PPAP approved, off tool/off process parts for Arrivals' UK and U.S. Electrical Bus and Car Programmes.
  • Led cross functional teams to meet a project plan with required target dates for design releases, supplier nominations, industrialisation of part manufacture etc.
  • Responsible for risk mitigation. Led cross-functional teams & Suppliers, to ensure part design, quality, manufacture & delivery
  • Supported and led the design of several core Procurement policies/procedures: i.e. Target Setting for CAPEX/OPEX & material costs. Improved expenditure due diligence, set a KPI framework to measure product launch readiness and implemented regularly reporting of key Procurement metrics vs Programme timings/Finance targets.

Consultant - Covid-19 Vaccine Task Force

UK Government - BEIS
London/Remote
01.2021 - 04.2021
  • Short term consultancy contract as part of a team of the Vaccine Task Force, responsible for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines as part of the NHS 2021 vaccine programme.
  • Responsible for ensuring a project a plan is in place and all procurement activities run to meet critical timescales.
  • Responsible for ensuring all due diligence and audit trails are in place to deliver Procurement activities as per Public Procurement, policies and procedures.
  • Developed cross functional risk mitigation plans where necessary.


PMO - Senior Procurement Launch Lead

Jaguar Land Rover
Graz, Austria
09.2017 - 01.2021
  • Worked in manufacturing product launch at Magna Steyr for the E-Pace and I-Pace vehicles. Responsible for ensuring supply chain readiness across critical & complex commodities
  • A subject matter expert on end to end Procurement procedures from tender, through to neogtiation and contract delivery
  • Matrix managed 6 sub-teams i.e. Engineering, Supplier Quality assurance, Logistics etc. to resolve short to long term supply chain and finance issues and maintain Procurement delivery to Programme timings
  • Planned/delivered supply chain risk mitigation plans for "At Risk" Suppliers.
  • Regular reporting to Director lever Magna/JLR leadership teams

Raw materials Procurement Manager

Hadley Group
West Bromwich, UK
07.2016 - 09.2017
  • Established a centralised Procurement function and trained and deployed a team of strategic raw material buyers to support global manufacturing sites
  • Created and implemented Procurement policies & procedures including due diligence measures around company expenditure
  • Designed and began delivery of the Category strategy for the Procurement of raw materials
  • Designed a sell and recycle process for scrap metal created on site
  • Within one year the team protected the company from a headwind of c. £3.2mn and achieved a Silver award as part of the CIPs procurement excellence programme

Senior Project leader - Indirect Spend

Jaguar Land Rover
Gaydon, UK /Nitra, Slovakia
06.2014 - 07.2016
  • Within a project strategy team, part of a 4 person task force who developed the inbound/outbound distribution cost models and set the material planning and logistics OPEX targets for JLR’s Slovakian business expansion strategy
  • Procurement lead advising on inputs into local agreements with the Slovak government
  • Supported project mandate in successfully delivering a 65% localised supply chain
  • Project managed an Indirect Procurement team of circa 30 buyers to set and deliver category strategies for goods & services (circa £370m spend).

Electrical Buyer

Jaguar Land Rover
, UK
07.2012 - 06.2014
  • Responsible for the category strategy, procurement (from tender through to contract award) for starter motors, batteries and alternators across all Jaguar and Land Rover vehicle lines - Responsible for an annual expenditure of £50mn
  • Key achievement - identification of a commodity design opportunity leading to a commercial "piece price gap closure" activity. Generated a commodity saving of circa £14 m over five fiscal years.

Education

MA - Public Policy and EU Law

Kings College

MCHEM - Chemistry

University of Edinburgh

Skills

  • B2B/P2P global business strategies
  • Total Value for Money (TVM)
  • C- Suite Metrics and Reporting
  • Budget forecasting/target setting
  • Advanced negotiation skills
  • Game Theory practitioner
  • Supply Chain design/re-design
  • Supply chain management
  • Procurement category strategy and delivery
  • Delivery of Greenfield manufacturing projects
  • Primavera (P6) (project management software)
  • SAP
  • JIRA
  • Power BI
  • Sievo
  • PRINCE 2 practitioner

Languages

English, Hindi
Native language
German
Intermediate
B1
English
Native
Hindi
Native

Timeline

Senior Programme Procurement Manager

Forseven/Mclaren
11.2023 - Current

Management Consultant

H&Z
02.2023 - 09.2023

Procurement Delivery Manager

Arrival
04.2021 - 02.2023

Consultant - Covid-19 Vaccine Task Force

UK Government - BEIS
01.2021 - 04.2021

PMO - Senior Procurement Launch Lead

Jaguar Land Rover
09.2017 - 01.2021

Raw materials Procurement Manager

Hadley Group
07.2016 - 09.2017

Senior Project leader - Indirect Spend

Jaguar Land Rover
06.2014 - 07.2016

Electrical Buyer

Jaguar Land Rover
07.2012 - 06.2014

MA - Public Policy and EU Law

Kings College

MCHEM - Chemistry

University of Edinburgh

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