Senior Buyer

General Description

Are you a Senior Buyer with a background within Engineering, seeking a new challenge?

Below covers everything you need to know about what this opportunity entails, as well as what is expected from applicants.

Expleo are seeking a Senior Buyer, to support one of our leading automotive clients, based in Warwickshire on a contract basis. This is a fantastic opportunity supporting the strategic sourcing activity, within a world-class engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Buyer:

• Reporting to the Procurement Manager you will have Global responsibility for specific commodities

• Utilise your experience to analyse, define, and implement market and sourcing strategies

• Lead the Global sourcing activity through the Global Sourcing Process

• Manage suppliers

• Cost Management

• Carry out Supplier reviews ensuring the Global Commodity Strategy and Supply Base Market strategy is effectively deployed

• Support the Regional Delivery teams and engage with specialists within the Procurement Function to ensure optimum value creation and delivery

• Maintain compliance within standard policies and procedures

Skills and Experience required for the Senior Buyer position:

• Degree qualified in a relevant subject matter or equivalent experience

• Ability to work independently and results driven

• A background in delivering operational plans in a complex, highly demanding environment

• Competent in creating high quality long term Procurement strategies

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders

• Skilled in maintaining compliance within standard policies and procedures

• Ability to translate analytical results into detailed, robust, actionable recommendations

• Experience of working in a global, multi-cultural environment is desirable

To meet with current legislation, right to work checks will be carried out to ensure candidates are able to work within the UK, unfortunately we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role. xwzovoh

Any application will be treated in a highly confidentiality manner and all conversations will be respected. For more information on the Procurement Specialist role, please apply now!

Jacquie Linton