Senior Buyer

4 weeks ago

Warwick, United Kingdom Caresoft Global Full time

**Job Title: Global Purchasing**

**Location: Gaydon / Hybrid Working**

**Rate: £38.00ph via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £28.80ph PAYE**

**Employment Type: Contract (12 months)**

**Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week**

**Reference: J38549**

**Description**:
This role is a pivotal role for interface with other key functions within the company and acts as a core conduit for true cross functional working across Production Purchasing, MP&L, STA, Product Engineering, Cost Engineering and Manufacturing.

**Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities**

**Strategy & Sourcing**:

- Responsible for Strategic Commodity Dossier (SCD) and Commodity Business Plan (CBP) delivery, ensuring relevant data is updated and understood in order to make strategic recommendations.
- Accountable for obtaining and understanding analytics on suppliers, market and business requirements is available.
- Responsible for creation, delivery and execution of SCD and CBP to specific sourcing requirements including supplier selection and sourcing approach in-line with company's sourcing guidelines e.g. Achilles Registration and Supplier Risk Assessment.
- Deliver sourcing in-line with policy and to agreed targets through GSP and deploying TCO/TVO approach.
- Responsible for timely and accurate GSAD submission, purchasing deliverables and GSP process adherence for the strategic team.
- Lead supplier negotiations and contracting with the support of the regional teams including legal and financial approval pre SCPA, also engaging specialist teams where appropriate e.g. Global Purchasing Finance (GPF).
- Work with the Capacity Planning Team (CPT) to ensure sufficient capacity at nomination and manage strategic capacity changes and constraints.

**Cost Management**:

- Ensure robust cost model development and input to cost target setting process, supporting cost event outcomes (pre SCPA) driving programme target alignment.
- Ensure key cost management information is accurate and documented.
- Key purchasing representative at Module Business Teams (MBT) to ensure cross-functional alignment on quality, cost, delivery and time requirements pre SCPA.
- Lead stakeholder alignment in relation to programme targets, red book, take rates and volumes, delivery buying teams and utilising specialists as required cross architecture, carlines.
- Ensure alignment with Regional Buyer and Cost Engineering to ensure strategic cost gap closure plans in place and actioned.
- Ensure delivery of material cost (NCR) to target pre and post SCPA working closely with the regional delivery teams.

**Supplier Relationship Management**:

- Lead the development of the supplier relationships globally for designated commodities.
- Participate in supplier business reviews to develop supplier relationships in accordance with the supplier segmentation model.
- Ensure supplier briefing templates are kept up-to-date to enable senior stakeholder briefings.

**Other**:

- Act as central co-ordination to ensure appropriate information exchange between company's and suppliers.
- Ensure effective handover for regional team(s) post SCPA using defined handover process.
- Ensure compliance to the company's way throughout the supply chain by maintaining the purchasing systems to ensure data integrity and therefore system performance.
- Manage Supplier, and Supply Chain Risk Management for assigned commodities post SCPA, ensuring the supply chain operates in accordance with company's (or equivalent), customer and governmental regulations.
- Participate in global functional improvement projects, process improvements and activities as required.
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.

**Three Key Skills Required**:

- Management of supplier relationships, both tactical and strategic.
- A strong communicator and negotiator with the ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders to influence
- Ability and experience to lead cross functional negotiations with suppliers.
- Commercial contract management experience, including but not exclusively leading or developing; commercial negotiation, new business award (via RFX / RFI / RFQ process).
- Stakeholder management and true cross functional working across Production Purchasing, MP&L, STA, Product Engineering, Cost Engineering and Manufacturing.

**Experience and Qualifications Required**:

- Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
- Experience of working in a global, multi-cultural environment.
- Ability to work independently, results driven, demonstrating tenacity, drive and perseverance with the ability to deliver operational plans in a complex, highly demanding environment.
- Implementing and delivering purchasing strategies with the focus on total value chain delivery.
- Ability to identify opportunities for creating value in a commodity or commodities.
- A resilient and enthusiastic individual who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs.

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