Buyer Automotive Experience

1 week ago


Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time
Buyer Automotive Experience
Bespoke Buyer

Assignment Type:
Temporary, ongoing basis where you will be engaged via Hays

Location:
Chichester

Working Environment:
Hybrid, part office based on site at client offices/ part home based

Pay type:
Competitive hourly pay rate

Our Client:


The World's pre-eminent super-luxury automotive brand based in Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, which comprises its global headquarters and Global Centre of Luxury Manufacturing Excellence.


The Role:
Everything starts with passion at our luxurious automotive client. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives them to keep reinventing mobility and to bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a department into a strongteam where every opinion is valued.

It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work are united that they can shape the future together.

Product quality always begins at source - with procurement.

That's why it takes people with uncompromising standards, exceptional business acumen and real determination to procure exciting and innovative materials for our bespoke vehicles.

But the job doesn'tjust end there.

In their pursuit of excellence, their team is tasked with managing the introduction of a vast array of bespoke features from a diverse range of specialised, sustainable sources.

As an integral part of our Bespoke buying team:

  • you will be responsible for securing the supply of bespoke electrical vehicle components and selecting suitable suppliers in line with agreed cost, quality, and time targets
  • This entails negotiating and agreeing prices and terms with suppliers to achieve the best possible costs while taking account of design, volume, and timing constraints.
  • You will be an expert in project management ensuring that all parts are developed and supplied to the required quality standard and within the planned delivery timeline.
  • You will proactively resolve supplier problems and ensure a continued successful business relationship with all parties

Skills & Qualifications:

  • A degree (or equivalent) and ideally a CIPS qualification
  • Experience of production component purchasing within an automotive environment or equivalent manufacturing environment
  • Experience in managing professional supplier selection processes
  • Experience of handling commercial negotiations with external suppliers
  • Experience of project management and an understanding of new product development processes
  • Good problemsolving ability required to overcome problems arising from specific cost, quality, time issues
  • Good interpersonal skills with an ability to influence key stakeholders.

Benefits:

  • Competitive hourly rate along with an annual performance related bonus
  • Hybrid working
  • Access to a subsidised restaurant
  • Hays Go1 training platform which offers a library of over 70,000 courses


Access to Ben
  • Offers support across a wide range of topics such as mental health wellbeing, financial or legal matters
  • Local retail and restaurant discounts
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