Your new companyA leading automotive manufacturing company in Preston is seeking an experienced procurement expert to join their fast-paced team as they continue to succeed and dominate their market. Your new roleThe Senior Buyer / Commodity Manager will play a pivotal role in managing procurement / sourcing activity in a high-value spend area, ensuring that optimal value for money is achieved and key stakeholder relationships are managed effectively, all the while ensuring that quality standards are maintained. The Senior Buyer / Commodity Manager will build key commercial relationships with suppliers, and you will also work with key internal stakeholders to ensure that Six Sigma projects are defined and implemented. As a Commodity Manager, you will devise and implement appropriate commodity strategies for the short, medium and long-term. Striving to deliver cost savings, you will lead on a number of cost-reduction projects across key areas of commodity expenditure.What you'll need to succeed

• Procurement experience which has ideally been gained within an automotive manufacturing or engineering environment
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Confident at negotiation and influencing
• Ideally, you will be CIPS qualified or partially qualified
• Good ICT skills and able to pick up new systems quickly