Senior Category Buyer

1 day ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Leonardo Full time

**Closing Date**:
**The Opportunity**:

- Leonardo is a global leader in defence electronics and delivers mission critical systems for situational awareness, electronic warfare and surveillance across land, sea and air. The Radar and Advanced Targeting line of business, based in Edinburgh, is uniquely positioned as one of the world's top manufacturers of radars, lasers and infra-red countermeasure systems.-
The Senior Category Buyer will be responsible and accountable for the acquistion of material from our external supply chain partners ensuring that supply meets our MRP demand. The Senior Category Buyer will use the defined SC toolbox of 3SR, de-commit and past due data to report back into the business stakeholders.**What we can offer**:

- Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options
- Custom working: The role may be a mixture of home based and onsite
- Flexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.
- Network groups
- Training: Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
- Continuous Learning: You will be supported in your ongoing professional development though training and mentoring
- Investors in People: We are proud recipients of the Investors in People Silver Award
- Employee Assistance Programme: Providing free and confidential mental health support
- Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 12 flexi days

To find out about all of our Company benefits please visit our careers page-
**What you will do**:

- Manage portfolio of external supply chain partners & associated purchase orders
- Ensure material supply meets MRP demand
- Ensure timely issuance and submission of responses to standard SC tool box including 3SR, De-commit and Past Due reports
- Be accountable for the management of Supplier delivery performance throughout the Contract lifecycle in line with defined Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
- Identify risk and opportunity, working collaboratively with stakeholders to help define mitigation activities.
- Maintain joint action plans using Sharepoint Portal
- Deploy the appropriate SAP activity in order to carry out your job effectively e.g. PO date maintenance
- Support and mentor team members

**What we are looking for**:

- CIPS accreditation or working towards, but not essential
- Exposure to defence/aerospace contracting
- Awareness of Trade / Export Compliance
- Negotiation skills
- Ability to influence
- Effective and flexible communication skills
- IT literate (must have MS Office & SAP knowledge)

**Life at Leonardo**:

- Discover life at Leonardo - a company for extraordinary people**Our UK locations**:

- We have offices around the UK, including Basildon, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lincoln, Luton, Southampton and Yeovil**Committed to Inclusion**:

- We are committed to creating a working environment that is designed to provide everyone with the opportunity to succeed.

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