Senior Engineering Buyer

4 weeks ago

Essex, United Kingdom The Portfolio Group Full time

Portfolio Procurement has been engaged by our leading Essex-based client to recruit for a Senior Engineering Buyer to lead procurement activities for their assigned division, procuring cutting-edge technologies used in manufacturing.

A global company, this role sits within a dynamic team who collaborate to overcome technical and commercial challenges in pursuit of delivering world class products. You will ensure that procurement is efficient, cost effective and meets the needs of the business and its customers.

As a Senior Engineering Buyer, you'll be:

  • Delivering direct procurement activities in collaboration with various teams.
  • Utilising subcontracts, supply contracts, quantity contracts and purchase orders to align supplier deliverables.
  • Controlling and delivering the sourcing strategy for a selected group of technical materials/commodities.
  • Ensuring engineering best practice techniques are used to ensure that components are designed to optimise their manufacturing ease throughout the entire Supply Chain
  • Establishing collaborative relationships that deliver an effective and efficient service to internal/external customers and suppliers.
  • Managing supplier performance and quality using appropriate KPI's and development plans.

To be successful, you'll need to be able to positively collaborate with stakeholders in a complex environment and have strong experience of evolving, negotiating, and agreeing contractual requirements and collaboration frameworks between internal stakeholders and suppliers.

Additionally, you'll require;

  • The ability to read technical drawings and have an understanding of metal components.
  • Experience of working within a demanding, low volume, highly complex, high value project environment. Ideally within the Space or Electronics Industry.
  • Strong working knowledge of SAP ERP/MRP (or similar) would be highly advantageous.
  • A good understanding of technical/clean room manufacturing environment would be advantageous.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of procurement project and MRP production methods.
  • Knowledge of wider supply chain, materials management, demand forecasting and engineering change management principles.
  • Strong excel / data management skills.
  • Knowledge of value engineering and cost down methodologies.
  • Strong knowledge of supplier quality management techniques.
  • MS Office proficient – Word, Excel, Access, Project, Visio, PowerPoint.

In return, you'll be working for an innovative business who movitates employees with recognition schemes and provides career development opportunities. Additional benefits include:

  • Comprehensive training
  • Pensions and Life Assurance​
  • Employee Bonus​
  • Retail & hospitality discounts
  • Health & medical benefits
  • Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support​

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