Indirect Buyer

MoneyGram Haas F1 Team is unique - on and off the track. We don’t follow the status quo and we’ve made a name for ourselves as the team who does things differently. You might’ve seen us on Netflix, or know that we’re the only American-owned team on the Formula 1 grid, but we’re also more than that.

We have three HQs - Kannapolis in the US, Banbury in the UK and Maranello in Italy - each staffed by passionate, loyal and hardworking advocates. At Haas, you’ll be involved in many different areas of the team, an assortment of projects and plenty of hands-on experience while collaborating with some of the best minds in the world.

Yes, you’ll learn from us, but we expect to learn from you too

General Summary:
This position reports to the Senior Indirect Buyer or their designee and is located in Banbury, UK. The Indirect Buyer role is a fixed term contract and is responsible for the timely delivery of quality goods and services within budget. Proactively ensures best practices are adopted and followed.

General Responsibilities:

- Responsible for indirect procurement of goods and services to support the operation of the wider team, ensuring delivery, cost, and quality targets and milestones are achieved.
- Promote teamwork and effective communications to develop trustworthy relationships between all personnel and departments.
- Operate within budgets and achieve agreed procurement cost saving targets.
- Other duties as assigned by Senior Indirect Buyer or their designee.

Key Responsibilities:

- This role will provide purchasing support to the indirect category of equipment, from facilities, IT, marketing and HR through to the services that support the wider race team, including transport, consumables, garage & pit equipment, etc.
- Follow purchasing guidelines, policies and procedures, continually challenging cost, quality and lead time.
- Sourcing value for money, quality suppliers, and securing commercially appropriate quotations; negotiating pricing and payment terms.
- On-board new vendors and setting them up on the ERP system as required, ensuring the appropriate process is followed, utilizing standard terms and conditions.
- Processing requisitions and raising purchase orders, and updating the wider team on the status of orders.
- Expediting deliveries to the required timescales, and maintaining accurate order-books, ensuring information is kept topical.
- Experience to foresee potential quality and delivery risks, with the knowledge to implement corrective actions.
- Building relationships with suppliers and negotiating with them for the best price, quantities and delivery timescales.
- Arranging transport of goods and tracking orders to ensure timely delivery.
- Responsible for invoice queries and liaising with the finance department to ensure resolution.
- Confidence to feedback any changes which could reduce the cost and/or improve the quality of supply without negatively effecting the function of the good or service.
- Assumes any responsibilities delegated by the Senior Indirect Buyer or their designee.

Education and Work Experience:

- A minimum of three or more years of Purchasing or Supply Chain experience.
- Experience in the motorsports industry would be advantageous, but not essential.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

- Work to a consistently high standard in time sensitive situations.
- Quick decision-making skills whilst working through problems in a scientific and analytical way.
- Work well within a team environment with personnel at all levels.
- Be able to operate with an uncompromising attitude to accuracy of delivery information, and high quality of delivered output.
- Be able to approach obstacles with a constructive and ‘can do’ attitude.
- Able to manage a category or categories whilst being able to deliver tactical solutions.
- A sympathetic approach to your work colleagues and an ability to integrate within a group environment.
- Proficient with industry standard ERP Systems.

Work Environment Physical Demands:
An ability to work and prioritize within a high pressure, time sensitive environment while retaining a methodical approach is essential. The role may require some occasional domestic and international travel and a willingness to work long and flexible hours including weekends.

This position may require lifting to 50 pounds, repeated bending, squatting and manual dexterity. Fast
- paced work environment requiring heavy mental demands. Work environment includes machinery, race cars, 7-post and other rigs, grinding debris, and hazardous fluids. All employees must ensure compliance with the Company Health and Safety Policy, and all relevant other statutory Health and Safety legislation.
- This job description may not detail some less major duties, nor cover duties of a similar nature, which may from time to time be reasonably required by the relevant manager._

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