Procurement Manager
Salary £ 75,000
South Crofty Mine, Pool, TR15 3QT
Vacancy listed 01/07/2026
Application deadline 17/07/2026
Details
The Company

Cornish Metals is an AIM listed Company working towards re-opening the 100% owned and fully permitted South Crofty underground tin mine in Pool, Cornwall.  

In March 2025, we raised £57.4 million, anchored by the UK’s National Wealth Fund and Vision Blue Resources to advance South Crofty towards tin production once again.  Tin is essential for electronics, renewable energy, and modern technology and demand is projected to increase by 30% in the next decade.

We are committed to ethical, responsible and domestic tin production and are proud to have strong local and national support.

Role Purpose

Reporting directly to the CFO, the Procurement Manager is responsible for delivering strong commercial outcomes across South Crofty through effective sourcing, buying strategies, supplier management, commercial negotiation, procurement performance, and operational leadership of the Procurement function.

A key focus of the role is translating procurement into tangible business value by improving supplier performance, strengthening commercial leverage, supporting operational readiness, increasing procurement maturity, and improving the quality, predictability, and cost-effectiveness of commercial outcomes across operational, project, and service-based requirements.

The Procurement Manager acts as the full-time operational lead for procurement, accountable for procurement delivery, supplier coordination, ERP-enabled procurement processes, KPI management, team leadership, and day-to-day procurement execution. The role represents the procurement function within weekly operational meetings and ensures activities are executed in a commercially disciplined, operationally responsive, and process-compliant manner aligned to wider governance and operational control frameworks.

The role also provides functional leadership across warehouse and inventory activities, ensuring strong alignment between purchasing, expediting, inventory availability, and operational material requirements to support uninterrupted operational delivery.

Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

Key Responsibilities

Buying Strategies, Sourcing & Commercial Value Delivery

  • Develop and implement practical buying strategies across key spend areas.
  • Identify opportunities for cost optimisation, value improvement, standardisation, and supplier consolidation.
  • Support forward planning and demand visibility with operational and project stakeholders.

Tendering, Contracting & Commercial Management

  • Drive procurement tendering activities within the team.
  • Build a tender pipeline allowing for commercial value creation in line with project and operational readiness schedules.
  • Support contract implementation and supplier commercial arrangements.
  • Work closely with Finance, Legal, operational and project stakeholders to ensure fit-for-purpose commercial structures are in place.
  • Monitor supplier and contract performance against agreed requirements.

Procurement Leadership & Department Management

  • Lead the day-to-day operation of the Procurement Department.
  • Daily approval of POs for commercial due diligence
  • Allocate workloads, set priorities, and ensure effective procurement service delivery.
  • Attend weekly operational meetings representing the procurement function.
  • Act as the primary operational escalation point for procurement matters.
  • Promote procurement as a commercially focused and enabling business function.

Supplier Relationship Management & Market Engagement

  • Support development of local, regional and national supplier capability in line with company commitments.
  • Represent Cornish Metals professionally with suppliers, contractors, and local businesses.

Procurement, Warehouse & Materials Integration

  • Provide functional leadership across procurement and warehouse/inventory activities.
  • Work closely with the Warehouse & Inventory Manager to ensure alignment between purchasing, expediting, receipting, inventory availability, and operational demand.
  • Support proactive materials planning to minimise operational disruption and supply risk.

Procurement Performance, Governance & Process Compliance

  • Implement and ensure compliance with procurement policies, controls, and governance frameworks.
  • Own and manage procurement KPIs and performance reporting.
  • Balance governance requirements pragmatically with operational priorities.
  • Support behavioural adoption of procurement discipline across the wider business through internal stakeholder engagement.

ERP, Systems & Procurement Process Ownership

  • Support ERP implementation (IFS), adoption, testing, training, and process embedding activities.
  • Support procurement and stores master data quality and reporting integrity.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Essential

  • MCIPS qualified.
  • Demonstrated procurement leadership experience within industrial, construction, mining, quarrying, manufacturing, or project-based environments.
  • Experience developing buying strategies, sourcing approaches, and supplier relationships.
  • Strong commercial acumen with experience negotiating and delivering value.
  • Experience leading tenders, quotations, and procurement activities across goods and services.
  • Experience managing procurement performance, KPIs, and reporting.
  • Experience working within ERP-enabled procurement environments.
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability.
  • Ability to balance commercial priorities, governance, and operational delivery.
  • Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.

Desirable

  • Mining, heavy industry, or operational readiness experience.
  • Developing Category Management strategies.
  • Experience supporting procurement maturity or transformation programmes.
  • Experience with ERP implementation or optimisation.
  • Understanding of warehouse, inventory, and materials management interfaces.
  • Experience engaging with local or regional supplier markets.

Working Environment

This is an on-site role based at the South Crofty site. Regular attendance at the South Crofty site during standard business hours is required.

Key Relationships

  • Reports to: CFO.
  • Works closely with: Head of Supply Chain.
  • Direct reports: Procurement team.
  • Functional leadership of: Warehouse & Inventory Manager.
  • Regular interaction with: Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Finance, Legal, HR, and Project teams.
  • External contact with: Suppliers, contractors, consultants, and local businesses.

Salary

£75,000

Benefits

• Health & Dental Cashback
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced parental leave and sick pay
• Income protection insurance
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Personal days

This vacancy has now been closed