Senior Buyer

**Date Posted**:
2024-03-06
**Country**:
United Kingdom
**Location**:
GBR13: Home - Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA
**Position Role Type**:
Unspecified
**Job Title**:Senior Buyer**

**Location(s): Hybrid Working - UK based with ability to travel primarily within the UK as required**

Summary of Role:
The Indirect Supply Chain Management Team are responsible for all bought-in products and services for non-customer deliverables; managing a diverse Supply Chain spend worth circa £65M annually.

The Indirect Commodity Management & Sourcing Senior Analyst works within the Sourcing and Commodity Management team developing the strategies for a core group of commodities in alignment with stakeholder needs and the overall RTX and Raytheon UK commodity strategy. This may include developing business cases, managing the tendering and negotiation of medium scale sourcing projects, and ongoing performance management of the key suppliers for their commodities.

This role will offer you the following challenges:

- Liaising with peers from other functions and RTX businesses and the Functional LT.
- Leading or supporting cross-functional teams in conducting make v buy exercises and developing and deploying commodity strategies; including:

- Target Return on Investment (ROI);
- commodity risk management;
- targeted service levels; and
- approved/preferred suppliers.
- Engaging with stakeholder functional leads regarding supplier bid and selection criteria.
- Participating in / leading supplier assessments and supplier development activity teams, including the administration of appropriate due diligence activity
- Working at an international level with RTX colleagues to leverage commodity opportunities and synergies across RTX.
- Ensuring that strategies are in alignment with market conditions, Raytheon requirements, goals and growth plans.
- Leveraging supplier and industry capabilities in conjunction with stakeholder functions to align functional strategies and identifying gaps to link supplier capabilities with Raytheon requirements.
- Developing commodity agreements
- Developing and managing tenders including performing or supporting cost and price analysis, developing negotiation strategies, and leading negotiations in order to create value for money outcomes for procuring goods and services
- Producing business cases/ briefing materials for management reviews
- Working with suppliers and functional stakeholders to achieve collaborative partnering, strategic relationship management to deliver required service level KPIs
- Executing customer requirements including government regulations, public law and Raytheon policies and procedures.
- Actively promoting the contributions that the function can make to achieving corporate objectives across the organisation, with stakeholders and with the supply chain
- Continually assessing and promoting sustainable and responsible procurement, including social, cultural and diversity values in the organisation and throughout the supply chain
- Utilising project management skills and techniques when managing suppliers.
- Evaluating the challenges faced by the organisation and the supply chains and taking action to mitigate risks and to develop opportunities

Essential:

- Experience in Supply Chain, Subcontracting, Procurement, Commodity Management and/or related field
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Able to perform effectively in a multi functional team
- Excellent verbal and written communications
- Experience in or exposure to negotiating low/medium complexity non-standard agreements
- Experience of problem solving and/or low level dispute resolution
- Experience or knowledge of MRP, SAP and purchase order placement/ material receipt processes
- Administration of delivery/acceptance/invoicing of goods and services

Desirable:

- Related degree//MCIPS/BA or equivalent
- Experience of developing and managing Subcontractor Relationship Management and collaborative working
- Experience of programme management skills (IPDS/Risk Management/Programme Gating/ Metrics/SOW Development/Business Finance)
- Knowledge of import/export legislation and logístical requirements
- Experience of working with international suppliers/programmes
- Process improvement skillset

**About Raytheon UK**

With facilities in Broughton, Waddington, Glenrothes, Livingston, Harlow, Gloucester, Manchester and a presence across customer sites together with remote working practices. Raytheon UK is invested in the British workforce and the development of UK technology. Across the country Raytheon UK employs over 2,000 people and supports 8,000 jobs. As a prime contractor and major supplier to the UK Ministry of Defence, Raytheon continues to invest in research and development, supporting innovation and technological advances across its core mission areas Weapons & Sensors, and Cyber, Space & Training.

Raytheon UK is a landed company, part of the RTX organisation and sits within the Raytheon Inte