Head of Automation and AI

Purchasing Manager
Location: London | Hybrid working
Salary: up to £65,000

A high-performing Purchasing Manager is sought to take ownership of supplier strategy, cost control, and procurement performance within a fast-paced high-tech manufacturing environment. This is a hands-on leadership role with real influence across operations, finance, and supply chain.

They will lead a small purchasing team while driving commercial outcomes—balancing cost, quality, and delivery across a global supplier base.

What you'll do

• Own and execute purchasing strategy across international suppliers

• Lead, coach, and develop a small team to deliver high performance

• Drive cost reduction, pricing strategy, and contract negotiations

• Partner cross-functionally with production, planning, logistics, and finance

• Manage risk across the supply base and ensure continuity

What you must bring

• 5+ years in purchasing or procurement within manufacturing

• Proven experience managing suppliers across global markets (Asia, Europe, US)

• Strong negotiation and contract management capability

• Experience leading and developing teams

• Track record of delivering measurable cost savings without compromising quality

How they want you to operate
Commercially sharp and decisive, balancing cost with on-time delivery. Influence effectively across teams, communicate with clarity, and operate comfortably in a dynamic, fast-moving environment. Detail matters—but so does pace and impact.

What success looks like in the role

• Improved supplier performance (OTIF, quality, cost)

• Measurable savings and margin improvement

• Strong, reliable global supply partnerships

• Efficient, scalable purchasing processes

Benefits

• Private medical insurance

• Pension

• On-site parking

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Social events and employee perks

• Flexible, collaborative working environment

A commercially driven leader ready to take ownership and deliver results will thrive in this role.

Role: Head of Automation and AI
Location: Salford, Manchester – Office based role
Salary: £70,000 to £80,000 + Bonus, Pension

This is an exciting new opportunity within a highly innovative, employee-owned ecommerce retailer based in Salford.

They have fully embraced automation and AI and have reached the stage where they need a technically hands-on leader to guide them and their development teams, creating a roadmap to advance them to best in class digital technology.

Your remit will cover all facets of automation, AI, systems and data leading a team of three as well as external development companies and systems providers.

He company employ around a hundred people and turnover circa £70m which is increasing year on year. The have a young but highly experienced management team that work in a constantly changing and dynamic environment so the ability to be agile is key. They allow for a high level of autonomy and decision making across all roles within the business.

Thew role will be very hands on, taking a lead on coding, creating new prototypes using vibe coding as well as implementing new and replacement systems using third parties.

We are looking for someone to bring ideas as harvest new ones from the senior stakeholders for areas to improve, prioritise, create the roadmap, and then execute with the support of partners such as web-developers and AI agency.

Some of their key objectives for AI, are the development of automation to reduce manual tasks across all functions, advanced decision making and insight, and automated actioning of decisions through applied business logic.

Data is at the centre of everything they do, so establishing a solid data foundation and establishing one version of the truth will also be key in this role.

What are we looking for:

This role is primarily focused on determining areas of the business that could have improved productivity through systems, automation and AI; it could be in any function within the business such as purchasing, pricing, advertising spend, or even tax returns.

To achieve this, we would expect you to have experience across the following:

• Development team management and leadership experience, planning, sprints, mentoring, support etc.
• Strong AI, LLM & Agentic experience.
• Extensive process automation experience.
• Hands on development skills, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python.
• Strong business engagement experience at all levels.

This is an office-based role in Salford as the management team are constantly collaborating and moving ideas forward at pace so you will need to be based within a commutable distance of Salford.

Senior Care Assistant – Elderly Residential Care
£15.22/hour - 33.74 hours per week
DAY SHIFTS

£15.98/hour - 22.5 hours per week
NIGHT SHIFT

We’re looking for a caring, confident Senior Care Assistant to join a small, friendly elderly care home where you’ll truly have the time to make a difference.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead and support the care team to deliver high-quality, person-centred care
• Support residents with personal care, independence, hobbies, and wellbeing
• Monitor health changes, update digital care plans, and liaise with healthcare professionals
• Safely manage and administer medication
• Help create a warm, safe, homely environment for every resident

What You’ll Need:

• Minimum 18 months’ experience as a Care Assistant in a care or nursing home
• NVQ level 3 in Health & Social Care or willingness to work towards
• Experience with medication administration
• Compassion, excellent communication, and the ability to lead by example
• Due to the small, personal nature of the service, this role is female only
• Must have the right to work in the UK – no sponsorship available

In Return, You’ll Get:

• Supportive team and management
• Free on-site parking, enhanced annual leave, pension, employee discounts
• Opportunities to upskill and progress
• A welcoming, friendly working environment
• £15.22 per hour + overtime opportunities