Senior Buyer
7 months ago
Req ID:451208
**Location Flexible**: Derby/Hatfield/York/Birmingham
**Appointment Basis**: Permanent
**Salary + Benefits**:Inc
- Excellent Salary, Pension, Contributed Private Healthcare.
Alstom is the UK & Ireland’s leading supplier of new trains, train services, and signalling infrastructure projects. It has built just under 40% of the UK’s mainline train fleet, all the fleets currently in service with London Underground and Dublin’s LUAS.
It is building the UK’s biggest train programme in a generation - AVENTRA - for seven of the UK’s largest train operating companies, is ramping up to build the next generation of Greater Dublin’s commuter trains, DART+ as well as 54 HS2 high-speed trains in a Joint Venture. Alstom also supports 66% of the UK fleet through its Services business and is the UK’s leading CP6 signalling & infrastructure provider.
Employing 6,000 people across the UK and Ireland, we design, build and test trains at the UK’s largest end-to-end train manufacturing factory in Derby and operate major sites at Widnes, Crewe, Ilford and Plymouth, as well as 30 train services depots across the UK&I.
**Your future role**
You’ll be responsible for ensuring the availability of Signalling Materials to meet the business needs ensuring all Alstom policies, processes and systems are adhered to. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with the procurement and project teams across the business.
**We’ll look to you for**:
- Ensuring materials are provided at the appropriate Cost, Quality and Delivery
- Undertake Contract Management of suppliers, where SLA exists, improving their performance or introduce SLAs.
- Ensure all requirements are competitively sourced in accordance with relevant policies and procedures.
- Provide full sourcing support for any identified project activities and requirements.
- Respond to all supplier and internal queries in a timely and professional manner.
- Undertake periodic benchmarking and maintain market intelligence to validate cost reduction activities where appropriate.
- Update SAP with Supplier costs and Lead-times.
**All about you**
We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:
- Degree or Passion in Procurement and supplier management, in a project or engineering environment.
- Experience or understanding of Procurement.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Familiarity with supplier negotiation
- Self-motivated and results focussed.
**Things you’ll enjoy.**
Join us on a life-long transformative journey - the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.
You’ll also:
- Enjoy stability challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines.
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
- Contribute to innovative projects.
- Utilise our fun and flexible working environment.
- Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries.
- Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning.
- Progress towards Senior Procurement Manager
- Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)
You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you
Alstom is the leading company in the mobility sector, solving the most interesting challenges for tomorrow’s mobility. That’s why we value inquisitive and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility, making it smarter and more sustainable. Day after day, we are building an agile, inclusive, and responsible culture, where a diverse group of people are offered opportunities to learn, grow and advance in their careers, with options across functions and geographic locations. Are you ready to join a truly international community of great people on a challenging journey with a tangible impact and purpose?
Equal opportunity statement:
Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.
As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests
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