Tactical Buyer Mset Uws

Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

**Tactical Buyer **MSET UWS (Under Water Systems)**

**Templecombe/Bristol/Reading**

**Our Opportunity**

**The Tactical Buyer **MSET UWS **will support the Marine Sensor Enhancement Team (MSET) contract, which is a vast new contract we have awarded - worth £1.85 billion.

It will maximise days at seas for the Royal Navy Fleet by ensuring sustained, long-term availability and resilience of critical assets, spares and repairs over the next 15 years.

By significantly increasing equipment availability, M-Set will increase the longevity of sensor and sonar capability, which is critical for the Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD) and wider ship and submarine capabilities. The result is GLOBAL Security will be boosted, the Royal Navy is presently fully engaged around the world. The Royal Navy operates ships and submarines across every ocean and continent. On Active duty, 365 days a year.

Thales UK will aim to provide full availability of the equipment that is the eyes and ears of the Royal Navy. Utilising data technology, including AI and virtual reality to provide a more proactive, and predictive maintenance systems, the project will secure a projected 450 employees across 5 Thales sites in the UK.

**Responsibilities**

Within a regional procurement centre, the Tactical Buyer is involved in the transactional procurement process of PR/PO (Procurement Requisition/Procurement Order). Also responsible for transforming a PR into a PO using the different elements coming from category buyers, in a time frame (SLA) and to follow up the PO.

The Tactical Buyer may periodically be required to expedite and follow-up on Procurement orders to ensure specific timing and quality requirements are met, including post award responsibility for supplier deliveries. In addition, the Tactical Buyer will support the category team in quote preparation, data analytics, quotes summaries, discrepant supplier inputs, and other tasks related to the sourcing process.
- Receiving procurement requests and verifying their conformity to operating methods.
- Transforming procurement requests into procurement orders.
- Managing purchasing order cancellation, rescheduling or PO information change (quantity, price).
- Analysis of quotations and summarization for category buyers.
- Make sure that suppliers acknowledge P.O. receipt and provide delivery commitment.
- Follow-up and expediting of Procurement orders.
- Ensuring accuracy of the order, GL account, or project number, ship to location, supplier information on Procurement order, and relevant notes/comments on the Procurement order document.
- Managing disputes and problem solution.
- Managing local negotiations within the DoA threshold.
- RFx management in e-ACQ under DoA
- Prepare reports on Procurements, including cost analysis.

**Skills and Experience**
- Demonstrate and show proven Skills and Experience related to the above mentioned responsibilities
- Computer literacy particularly with respect to MS Office packages and MRP systems.
- Customer (internal and end) focus
- Understanding of the technical and non-technical requirements.
- Delivery orientated while ensuring the budget and all contractual commitments are met.
- Proven negotiation skills
- Ability to build effective relationships with Suppliers
- Relevant experience in procurement or supply chain/manufacturing roles
- Experienced in using MRP/ERP systems such as Oracle or SAP

**Benefits at Thales**

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include a pension plan, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection as well as an employee assistance programme.

In addition, our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefits to suit your needs. You can choose to add a number of optional benefits including