Procurement Graduate

**FY23 Procurement Graduate**:
**Overview**:Purchasing is a key function within any automotive manufacturer, after all, when you consider that 80% of the car value is from externally sourced components you can understand how important your role within Purchasing will be. Throughout your role, you will learn about the vast variety of functions within Purchasing and will be allocated your own area of responsibility from the following:

- Line Parts, Facilities & Site Services, Aftersales, Vendor Tooling, Purchase Project Management, Strategy Planning & Control, Supplier Quality Development and Total Delivered Cost

Our Cranfield facility, European Technical Centre (NTCE), serves as the head office for Nissan's Research & Development operations in Europe. In Sunderland, our production facility (NMUK) is the home to iconic models such as Qashqai, Juke & Leaf and the recently announced EV36Euro Electric Vehicle (EV) Hub.

**Key benefits**: Competitive salary starting from £33,904, Company pension programme, Company share scheme, Car ownership scheme, Fitness centre, Paid overtime. Private healthcare, Sports and leisure complex, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays, Travel opportunities (dependent on role)

**What you'll need**:

- Must have or expect to achieve a 2.1 in a relevant degree.
- You must have permission to live and work in the UK without restriction at the time of hire.
- Strong analytical skills and a data-driven thinker
- A creative, forward thinker with excellent communication and team working skills.
- Excellent written & verbal communication.
- Good team worker / flexible working approach with ability to self-motivate.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced organisation.
- Efficient time management & organisation skills
- Knowledge of a foreign language may be an advantage.
- Geographically mobile
- Sourcing for all new models across Nissan Europe
- Daily communication with suppliers, internal departments, external departments, and global entities
- Cost management of parts with both suppliers and internal departments
- Project management activities for new European projects
- Internal Reporting of key cost information on a monthly basis
- Supplier visits where possible.

Please note we have positions available in both our NMUK Sunderland and NTCE Cranfield sites. Please specify if you have a preferred location when applying.

All of us at Nissan - regardless of functional area or expertise - share a passion to design, manufacture and sell high-performance, fun to drive vehicles.

Cranfield Bedfordshire United Kingdom