Indirect Buyer

**TAE Power Solutions.**
**The Next Paradigm Shift: Accelerated.**

The future is electric, but only if it’s better — for businesses, consumers, and the planet. We bring electrification to the next level, to enable and sustain a cleaner planet.

At TAE Power Solutions, we design power management systems that use less but do more. From electric vehicle drivetrains and ultrafast charging to stationary energy storage and grid efficiencies, we develop a clean energy ecosystem of proprietary technology designed to go faster, perform stronger, travel farther, and last longer.

**About the Role**:
Indirect buyer provides purchasing, procurement and contract management support across multiple business units including, strategy development and implementation.

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Interact with indirect (Energy, MRO/Temporary Labor) leaders to optimize indirect supply conditions.
- Prepare and execute indirect contract negotiations in alignment with facility needs.
- Drive the quotation processes, define evaluation criteria, identify and select suppliers, execute the evaluation process, refine and validate sourcing and purchasing options, manage buy-in of business unit leaders.
- Responsible to build sound relationships with suppliers and partners (internal and external)
- Manage contract information to ensure that portfolio has consistent information and renewals, or termination due date are under control.
- Continually look for ways to exceed customer’s expectations, increase efficiency implement better processes and achieve cost savings globally.
- For each procurement project, develop a tactical plan for project execution, including clearly defined accountabilities of each team member.
- Execute awarding procedures and inform supply base of unsuccessful tenders.
- Selects sourcing approach for a specific commodity that will yield the best combination of price, quality and service.
- Set and SLA’s and KPI’s in conjunction with the commodity required.
- Direct and project-based purchasing activities will be assigned also.

Safety & Environmental
- Ensures Environmental Health & Safety policy is always adhered to.
- Promotes Environmental Health & Safety awareness.
- Responsible for adhering to EHS procedures & policies to ensure compliance.

**Required Education & Experience**:

- Clean Driving License.
- IT skills (to be able to use company business system with initial training).
- Good interpersonal skills
- Exposure to NEC contracts (or similar)

System or Knowledge
- Knowledge of SAP, Netsuite, MRP would be advantageous.

Personal Attributes
- Good team worker
- Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels of the business.
- Logical reasoning, with a “can do attitude”.
- Good organisational skills
- OPEX and CAPEX Knowledge

Other Features of job
- Eligible to work in the UK.
- This role is based at our Head Office at Birmingham Business Park, 0900 to 1700, including 30-minute paid break 5 days a week.
- Travel between TAE Sites in the UK will be required.

**About Us**:
**Imagination, skill, and will**

We are a team of over 250 engineers, scientists, professionals, and big thinkers from over 40 countries. We work daily at the frontiers of science, to deliver products that lead humanity into a brighter era. We are not afraid to reach for the stars and build the future with fusion and science.

At TAE Power Solutions, we design power systems that use less but do more. Systems that charge faster, run stronger, go farther, and last longer. We inspire better ways to move, work, play, and live. The future is electric because it’s powered by TAE.

**Confident, collaborative, and creative**

We are unwavering in our expertise and knowledge, separating fact from fiction and proof from hypothesis.

**You will be a successful member of TAE Power Solutions if you have these traits**:

- You are confident in your skills, based on your credentials, technical accomplishments, and positive impact on your teams/organizations.
- You are collaborative, and work well within and with teams to approach challenges with respect, transparency, optimism, and confidence to succeed together.
- You are creative, with determination to learn continuously, break new ground, and push the cutting edge.
- _**What we offer**:

- A collaborative environment: An organization, where talents and interests can plug in to different groups outside of direct job description.
- Generous payment rewards: For novel research, patents, and talent referrals
- Potential for equity participation
- Hybrid/remote work options for certain positions
- Robust team-building events on and off-site
- TAE Power Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status._

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