Delivery Buyer

**Direct Production Delivery Buyer**

**13 Month Rolling Contract**

**Gaydon**

**Purchasing**

**Position Description**:

- An exciting opportunity to join the Procurement team within Purchasing at our Client, where you’ll join a fast-moving team responsible for leading supplier performance to deliver a competitive edge for the Client in the world of connectivity, autonomy and more.
- You will utilise your experience to analyse, define, and implement market and sourcing strategies for your designated commodities.
- Alongside managing suppliers, you will also collaborate with internal stakeholders, ensuring that the Global Commodity Strategy and Supply Base Market strategy is effectively deployed throughout the Client and the external supply chain.
- You will have responsibility for pre or post sourcing and contract management activities for your designated commodities and suppliers within your region.
- You will develop and execute key performance indicators across the designated regional suppliers, engaging with stakeholders and specialists within the Purchasing Function as required, ensuring supplier performance to meet Client Quality, Cost, Delivery, Innovation and Sustainability (QCDIS) requirements.
- This role is also a pivotal interface with other key functions within the Client and acts as a core conduit for true cross functional working across Global Production Purchasing, Material Planning & Logistics, Supplier Technical Assurance, Product Engineering, Cost Engineering and Manufacturing.

**Skills Required**:

- Negotiation
- Stakeholder
- Engagement
- Supplier Sourcing

**Experience Required**:

- Knowledge, Skills and Experience Essential: Degree qualified or equivalent experience
- Experience of working in a global, multi-cultural environment
- Experience delivering complex supply chain solutions in a fast paced, high pressured manufacturing environment
- Ability to implement purchasing strategies with the focus on total value chain delivery
- Ability to identify opportunities for creating value in a commodity or commodities.

**Experience Preferred**:

- Automotive Experience preferred Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Strategy & Sourcing: Responsible for supporting the generation and execution of commodity and supplier strategy, and the effective operational relationships with designated suppliers.
- Ensuring that Suppliers adopt and follow the commodity strategy that delivers improved commercial and operational performance
- Cost Management: Manage contracted supplier obligations, production readiness and resolution of any commercial and/or programme issues/risks.
- Ensuring effective cost management of designated commodities and suppliers, which will involve generating production, supply chain and engineering improvement ideas in order to achieve annual cost reduction on current spend.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Lead supplier negotiations and contracting of existing model commodities, with support from cross functional regional teams.
- Key Purchasing representative at Module Business Teams (MBT) to ensure cross-functional alignment on quality, cost, delivery and time requirements pre and post contract award.

**The Professional Person**:

- An effective communicator with a desire to influence cross-functionally.
- A resilient individual with a continuous learning mind-set.
- An effective team player who actively develops and supports team members.

Excellent Opportunity with immediate starts available.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: £35.81 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person