Senior Buyer

**Job Description**:
**Senior Buyer**

**Winsford**

**Fulltime**

We have an excellent opportunity has arisen for a Senior Buyer to join our team in Winsford.

As a Senior Buyer, you will be responsible for delivering a range of purchasing requirements from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system-driven needs to sourcing new supplies of items with a broad spectrum of engineering complexity.

In this role, you will play a critical role in the delivery of production and MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) services for our customers, both in the UK and overseas. The role requires you to interact with and support a wide variety of business functions engaged in delivering Rolls Royce's commitments and growing future business.

Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will use your excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work cohesively within the Operations team, building strong relationships with our suppliers. You will have the ability to work both independently and within cross-functional project teams.

We expect you to have good knowledge and experience of Production and Manufacturing processes, Planning systems, Quality and HSE requirements.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

**What you will be doing**

You will be identifying potential new sources of supply or working within the existing supply chain to generate and complete enquiries based on specific project requirements.
- Negotiating with suppliers on commercial terms, quality, cost and delivery (QCD) requirements to secure best value which will meet or improve project performance targets.
- Managing supplier/subcontractor performance and relationships to ensure QCD stability, through regular expediting and monitoring.
- Providing support to Sales as required on new bid work and with Engineering to fulfil product change requirements and control in the supply chain.
- Maintaining purchasing data accuracy/integrity in company’s ERP system.
- Supporting the Supply Chain Manager to improve and develop purchasing processes.

**Who we’re looking for**

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles and for this role in particular we are looking for:

- Demonstrable experience in procurement, contract and supplier management activity ideally within a mechanical/electrical product and MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) environment.
- Be able to handle change resourcefully and stay focused on delivering purchase requirements.
- Have first class communication and influencing skills, both internally and externally at all business levels.
- Be able to demonstrate commercial awareness and negotiation skills.

**Join us & Power Our Future**

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Diversity and Inclusion strategy here

Grade: DGS Grades

Closing Date: Midnight 5th March 2024

**Job Category**:
Procurement

**Posting Date**:
28 Feb 2024; 00:02