Project Buyer

Company Description

Bosch Rexroth is one of the world‘s leading specialists in the field of drive and control technologies.

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**Please note that you must have the right to live and work in the UK to be eligible for consideration as sponsorship is not available for this role.**

**Job Description**:
**Main Objectives and tasks**:
**Support operational requirements**
- Submitting requests for quotation to suppliers, analysing quotes, and making sourcing recommendation/decisions using comparison of quotation (COQ) and/or decision matrix
- Check drawings and specifications with suppliers for quotations
- Updating prices in our SAP system, costing of parts, and resolving blocked invoices
- Ensuring accuracy of source list for the processing of Purchase Orders
- Assist Sales/Engineering process with collecting target prices and effective quotations
- Planning and organising meetings with both suppliers and internal stakeholders, preparing accurate minutes and documentation for meetings, ensuring prompt distribution and follow up of actions
- Documenting purchasing decisions in accordance with company guidelines/requirements, ensuring complete access of relevant data by maintaining files (e.g., supplier information, quotation, negotiation agreements, contracts etc.)

**Manage the supplier base and procurement process**
- Conducting annual price negotiations with local suppliers (1:1 relationship) in alignment with the material field specialist strategy
- Renegotiate initial offers from suppliers to generate CSR II savings, while ensuring materials and services are bought at the most competitive price and at best negotiated cost
- Identify new local suppliers, agree terms, and negotiate supply agreements such as incoterms and payment terms where appropriate, including volume rebates
- Undertaking annual supplier assessments together with quality and logistic department on delivery, quality, communication, and pricing performance while ensuring that optimal performance levels are achieved
- Visiting suppliers and customers, providing a proactive response to problems, and identifying appropriate solutions to improve performance
- Ensuring Frame agreements, confidentiality agreements and certificates are obtained from suppliers where appropriate
- Conducting supplier audit together with QMM and assist in processing quality notifications
- Conducting MCR/CSR/PPV monthly data verification
- Supporting and implementing local purchasing strategy and strategies defined by material field specialist (MFS) and including the strategy of the regional concept.
- Monitoring suppliers’ dependency level to minimise risks

**Develop strong relationships with other functional departments**
- Ability to understand the purchasing requirements for engineered solutions, participating in projects meetings with Sales/Engineers, identifying measures to reduce costs and/or delivery timescales for a job prior to technical specification
- Maintaining excellent communication channels between internal departments
- Engage in continuous improvement actions within Purchasing and the wider business where relevant
- 5S Auditor within Purchasing office

**Qualifications**:

- MCIPS Qualification or equivalent business qualification or experience
- Conversant in Microsoft Office products
- SAP R3 or similar integrated system
- Desirable - Engineering background including knowledge/awareness of the hydraulic and factory automation solutions we are providing to customers
- Ability to focus on objectives and meet deadlines in required timescales
- Customer focussed, responding proactively to requests from both internal and external customers
- Team player, with excellent communication skills
- Strong negotiation skills, with the ability to positively influence required outcomes for the customer and the business

Additional Information
**We offer a competitive package including;**
- ** Competitive salary**:

- ** Some hybrid working - up to 5 days per month**:

- ** Benefits**:Pension, 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing to 30 days with service, Life Assurance, Staff discounts, Perkbox, Cycle to work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, free car parking on site.

**Please note that you must have the right to live and work in the UK to be eligible for consideration as sponsorship is not available for this role.