Senior Plant Buyer

1 month ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom International Automotive Components Full time

**Main purpose of the job**:
Support organisation with indirect procurement requirements for allocated plants.

**Main missions and results**:

- Sourcing of the in-direct materials, products and services
- Identify Cost Savings with plant stakeholders and suppliers
- Close connection to Indirect commodity managers and Plant stakeholders for Cost Savings
- Escalation point of supplier issues for indirect regarding service levels or price issues, for the requesters and / or suppliers
- Action LTA PO changes for indirect products and services
- Develop, maintain, lead and own the indirect roadmap cost savings project
- Support the Indirect Commodity Managers as and when requested, for the topics relevant to the plant buyer's plants
- Indirect Tooling and local supplier management, negotiation and PO creation, as exception, when the Tooling and Capital teams cannot do it
- Plant indirect P-save lead and ownership
- Maintain the indirect price lists in AS400
- Process the new supplier requests in Lotus Notes
- Approval of the indirect purchase orders in AS400
- Control / administration of the supplier bonuses for the indirect procurement
- Negotiations with suppliers regarding new launches and changes for indirect products and services
- Support the requisitioners in raising the purchase requisitions in AS400 (POs related to the plant buyer mission)
- Work diligently and timely to achieve assigned KPIs and objectives

**Preferred skills and experience**:

- Economic or technical education or equivalent with substantial procurement experience in a fast-moving industrial corporation, preferably automotive.
- Full understanding & proven ability to enhance productivity to meet near and long-term goals.
- Previous experience of material flow planning and value stream thinking.
- Ability to effectively operate, influence and communicate with stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills
- Working well under pressure and engaging at all levels of the organization both internally and externally
- Very good organization, communication, time management and self-prioritisation skills
- Ability to make and accept challenge positively and debate confidently
- High degree of integrity, credibility and transparency, always prepared to do the right thing
- Very good PC skills (MS Office, ERP systems)
- Excellent analytical skills
- High accuracy

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