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**About Our Client**:
We at Vaillant Group are 16,000 colleagues from more than 70 countries who work every day for a better climate -for people at home and the environment. We work on large-scale, innovative and strategic projects. And with small, everyday gestures so that we can all play our part.

At Vaillant Group, we can offer you excellent working conditions to harness your potential and provide great job satisfaction. Working for us makes you responsible for the future -your own, and that of our planet.
- This position will initially be working within project purchasing and will subsequently transfer to direct purchasing once this project has been completed.
- As part of the role, you will conduct new launches (serial components and external tooling) and actively participate in the phase-out planning of assembly groups / components.
- Complete supplier assessments, supplier selection and supplier co-development taking into account the current material group strategies.
- Evaluate inquiries and tenders as well as make decisions considering internal contract awarding conferences under participation of divisions such as R&D, Quality and Production.
- Negotiate costs and conditions (incl. batch sizes, packaging and shipping concepts) by making use of a qualified supplier portfolio and all procurement leverages.
- Act as internal supplier of information in the field of procurement, market research and trend scouting.
- Perform group-wide coordination and implementation of a pre-defined material group strategy on an international basis.
- Ensure a high level of quality management including initiating and executing audits, actively cooperating in the component validation process and executing quality workshops for supplier qualification.

**The Successful Applicant**:

- Preferably degree educated and/or MCIPS qualified.
- Previous exposure in a procurement role is essential.
- A good understanding of MS Office and ideally you will have knowledge of SAP.
- Great analytical and interpersonal skills with a positive approach to work.
- You should be highly organised and a team player.
- A talent in negotiation with great communication and presentation skills

**What's on Offer**:

- We offer a generous pension scheme which enables our employees to have greater financial security when they do retire.
- For our employee's peace of mind, we provide a death in service benefit.
- We are passionate about the world we live in and climate change, for this reason we offer all employees the opportunity to join the cycle to work scheme.
- We want to help all our employees reach their career potential to support this we provide extensive training for all employees.
- We care about the health and well-being of our employees and have a Well-being programme in place to support them.
- Contact
- Roxanne Dodds
- Quote job ref
- JN-012023-5916226
- Phone number
- +44 161 829 0432