Customer Ref: 36751995

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Duties:
Overall responsibility and leadership for all contract management and Supplier Relationship management activities and local and regional sourcing within their sphere of responsibility.
Including;
- Responsible for supporting the strategic sourcing activity in line with Strategy Category Plan, providing insight and local market intelligence, as required
- Responsible for sourcing any local and regional spend in line with the SCP
- Responsible for implementing the relevant global contracts sourced by the Strategic Buyer
- Responsible for the Contract and Supplier Relationship Management activities for the contracts created at a global and regional level
- Responsible for Regional/Local one-off purchase sourcing and order placement by exception where this cannot be carried out by the Operational Buying team (i.e. language, local market Intelligence, cultural)
- Responsible for escalation of significant contractual issues to the Strategic Buyer

Key Performance Indicators:
- Savings in line with the savings target (Budgetary and Value Add) for their local / Regional Sourcing activities
- Contract Management KPI’s and supplier performance (Change management, ongoing cost performance,
- Problem resolution timing etc.
- Supplier Relationship KPI’s (completion of Supplier Relationship Performance Surveys, supplier business reviews)
- Sourcing timing for local / Regional Contracts over GSP threshold

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
Category Strategy
- Responsible for reviewing the Strategic Category Plan
- Support local Stakeholder alignment in relation to strategy creation and implementation of the categories

Sourcing
- Responsible for delivering sourcing of local/regional suppliers in line with SCP
- Responsible for Regional/Local one-off purchase sourcing and order placement by exception where this cannot be carried out by the Operational Buying team (i.e. language, local market Intelligence, cultural, systems)
- Responsible for Global Sourcing Approach Document (GSAD) submission and GSP process adherence for the regional and local sourcing
- Ensure alignment with Global Category Leads and Strategic Buyers to ensure strategic / tactical sourcing is in line with strategy for the regional and local sourcing
- Identify Make vs Buy and business justification when required and support analysis for regional and local sourcing
- Responsible for supply chain risk management for the regional and local sourcing
- Engage with specialist functions where required GPF, Risk, OGC
- Maintain lead for supplier interaction

Contract Management
- Responsible for managing dispute resolution process
- Responsible for the Change Management of the contracts and Purchase Orders
- Lead continuous improvement /benchmarking and implementation of the

improvements
- Responsible for resolution of identified problems
- Responsible for on-boarding Suppliers into the BAU environment as required
- Support Financial reconciliation activities, as required
- Lead Stakeholder alignment to confirm ongoing service satisfaction
- Responsible for conducting contract audit/reviews in line with requirements
- Responsible for adhering to the client Contract Management guide

Supplier Relationship Management
- Responsible for conducting the Supplier Relationship Performance Survey (SRPS)
- Responsible for maintaining the SRPS actions plans and working with suppliers and internal stakeholders to complete the actions
- Responsible for ensuring the Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Performance Management processes are carried out effectively for their category
- Responsible for organising and conducting the Supplier business reviews, capture the minutes and actions and work with suppliers and internal stakeholders to complete these actions
- Responsible for input to the Supplier Excellence Awards

Key Interactions
- Stakeholders / Budget holders / Requisitioner departments
- Suppliers within category - normally account / operations director
- Finance controller for project / programme or requisitioner functional area
- External Industry forums
- OGC
- Supplier Risk Team
- Regional Buying Teams
- GPF

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- An individual who is results driven, demonstrates, tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment.
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience preferred
- Commercial Awareness and Negotiation skills
- Understand category management principles
- Global business understanding and experience
- Operational Contract Management experience
- Relationship management - internal and external
- Flexibility and agility to be able to adjust to changing business needs
- Ability to travel internationally

Desirable:
- Experience of stakeholder operational deployment / requirements of category (e.g. has worked in the stakeholder area of the specific category)
- Category knowledge and demonstrated experience
- Previous supplier experience within category
- Relevant professional qualification

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally with in the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: 36349383

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Data Analytics - Software and Systems testing - £34.55/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (Hybrid potential) - 7 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
This role is focused on ensuring the integrity, consistency, and usability of software and systems testing data across all domains created in JIRA and generally visualised in Tableau. This role bridges the gap between engineering, testing, and development teams by analysing the complex datasets, resolving tooling issues, and preparing high-quality data for decision-making and reporting.

- Identify patterns, anomalies, and insights to support engineering and quality teams.

Skills:
- Ability to support project planning with data-driven insights.
- Ability to create transparent weekly Top-Management Reporting
- Ability to interact with key engineering stakeholders to ensure metrics are aligned and correct
- Ability to interpret the data to determine the key messages that should be shared.
- Ability to ensure data integrity is maintained, by monitoring tickets for common errors
- Ability to coaching other uses of the tooling on data consistency and cleanliness

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.

Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: 36227144

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

System Integration Engineer - Automotive - £34.00/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (Hybrid potential) - 8 months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
Within the Central Systems Integration team, the System Integration Lead Engineer is accountable for the maturation and delivery of customer features into current and future Vehicle programmes to sign-off level in line with programme gateways. Working across the business functions, all cross-functional delivery steps to deliver the features must be understood and communicated to domains as time-based goals to co-ordinate their integration into vehicles and test assets. Working with the delivery domains in Agile methodology, System Integration Lead Engineer ensures that all elements of feature and system implementation happen in a timely manner, spotting any threats that arise, removing roadblocks and resolving any cross-functional disconnects to allow the plan to succeed.

To support transparency of status to the wider business, the System Integration Lead Engineer is responsible for maintaining the Mainline Integration Plan (MIP) within the JIRA toolset, co-ordinating inputs and producing the weekly consolidated Integration Report. Together these provide all stakeholders with full view of plans for feature and function availability and maturity, so that functionality for vehicles and test properties is continually understood. The progress of the Integration Report is presented out via bi-weekly Showcases to company leadership and senior stakeholders which the System Integration Lead Engineer supports.

Key responsibilities:
- Manage bring up of feature and systems on test assets.
- Support the Technical Group Lead in delivery of integrated SW to Vehicle Programmes
- Participates and lead cross-functional teams to solve complex integration problems (timing and technical)

Skills:
- Thorough understanding of the Systems Design Life Cycle - system definition, system architecture development, requirements specification, design reviews, systems integration, system assessment and acceptance within the automotive sector.
- Excellent technical project management skills, with ability to deliver complex mechatronic systems at a whole vehicle integration level.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to collaboratively influence delivery teams across the engineering function.
- Understanding and experience of using CANalyzer, Wireshark, Diagnostic Tools etc.

Education:
- Educated to degree level preferred
- Experience of engineering product delivery using project management techniques.
- Experience of programme and project delivery processes under Agile methodology and JIRA.
- Experience in the integration and delivery of electrical, electromechanical or software systems.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: 36317179

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

NVH Modal test engineer - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) – Warwickshire – 8 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

Duties:
Measurement, analysis and reporting of vehicle, system and component modal performance status to meet key gateway requirements. Responsible for lab-based transfer function measurement to support NVH attribute needs and NVH issue investigation, i.e. Transfer Path Analysis to support road, powertrain and simulator teams

- Undertake detailed correlation work in collaboration with CAE teams both internal and external to improve future models and simulations.
- Maintain the Modal lab workspace and ensure it is fit for use, and calibration compliant
- Support taskforce activities to solve complex engineering problems as required
- Maintain up to date method statements and processes for modal and systems testing

Skills:
- Experience within a modal testing environment and setup and use of impact hammer testing and shaker equipment
- Good understanding of NVH signal processing and analysis, especially modal, structural and transfer function analysis
- A methodical and detailed approach to planning, recording and executing high quality testing, and reporting
- Ability to effectively present and communicate complex NVH data
- Capable of working closely and collaboratively within a small team, inc. some coaching of apprentice colleague
- Ability to identify and propose continuous improvements and new methods of work
- Practical capability to carry out the basic fitting tasks necessary to set up and instrument tests, including ability to design new fixtures/rigs which can then be fabricated by the workshop teams.

Education:
- Degree or relevant equivalent experience

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.

Customer Ref: 36368483

Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

PMO Specialist - £27.21/hr (Inside IR35) - Coventry - 6 Months (maternity cover)

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Governance & Assurance:
- Support implementation and monitoring of governance structures across the portfolio.
- Ensure compliance with standards, document control, and assurance processes.

Planning & Scheduling:
- Assist in developing and maintaining project schedules and milestone plans.
- Collaborate with project managers to integrate third-party inputs and align with delivery timelines.

Tools & Techniques:
- Maintain and enhance digital PM tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence).
- Use JQL scripting for custom queries and filters.
- Develop and maintain Tableau dashboards to visualise KPIs, timelines, and resource use.

Risk, Opportunity & Issue Management:
- Maintain risk and opportunity registers, support workshops, and ensure timely escalation and reporting.
- Help identify and mitigate delivery risks.

Change Control:
- Administer change control processes, ensuring accurate documentation and tracking.
- Support review and approval workflows per governance protocols.

Stakeholder & Communications Management:
- Maintain stakeholder maps and communication plans.
- Support effective engagement and cross-functional collaboration, including internal/external reporting.

Performance Measurement & Reporting:
- Support definition and tracking of delivery KPIs.
- Produce regular reports and insights to aid decision-making at project and portfolio levels.

Reviews & Continuous Improvement:
- Coordinate lessons learned sessions and embed findings into future delivery.
- Support continuous improvement and best practice sharing.

Resource & Pipeline Planning:
- Assist in pipeline planning by analysing short-, medium-, and long-term resource needs.
- Liaise with planners and delivery teams to support capacity planning.

Dependency & Integration Management:
- Track interdependencies across projects and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
- Support integration of schedules, risks, and reporting across delivery streams.

Capability Development:
- Support onboarding and mentoring of new PMO team members.
- Promote knowledge sharing via digital platforms and forums.

Customer-Centric Delivery:
- Support initiatives to measure and improve delivery from a customer perspective.
- Embed feedback into delivery processes to support a 'Customer Love' culture.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience Essential:
-Advanced planning/scheduling capability
-Proven process improvement experience
-Document control knowledge
-Skilled in MS Office and project planning tools
-Excellent communicator with ability to simplify complex messages
-Degree or equivalent experience
-Experience in PMO, project analyst, or support roles in complex environments
-Familiarity with project/programme/portfolio methodologies (e.g. APM, PRINCE2)
-Proficient in Jira and coding languages for reporting and dashboards
-Experience with Tableau or similar tools
-Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
-Knowledge of risk, issue, and change control processes
-Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills
-High attention to detail and organisational skills
-Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint

Desirable:
-Formal PM qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, PMI)
-Experience in engineering, infrastructure, or technical projects
-Knowledge of lifecycle frameworks (e.g. RIBA, V-model)
-Exposure to portfolio-level reporting and resource planning
-Familiarity with Confluence and collaborative platforms
-Experience supporting lessons learned and continuous improvement
-Understanding of financial tracking and budget reporting
-Experience onboarding or mentoring team members

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.