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Senior Project Buyer (Engineering)
Job Posted: 22 hours ago
Salary: £ 50,000 - 55,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Senior Project Buyer (Engineering)
Working within a small team of 3, the Senior Project Buyer will lead procurement activities, procuring cutting edge technologies. The role sits within a dynamic delivery team who collaborate to overcome complex technical and commercial challenges in pursuit of delivering world class products. Ensuring that procurement is evaluated, efficient, cost effective and aligned to operational need. Ideal candidate will have technical procurement experience, commodities and category purchasing.
Main responsibilities and description of role
* Deliver direct procurement activities in collaboration with Technical Programmes, Projects and Production Teams.
* Utilise as appropriate subcontracts, supply contracts, quantity contracts and purchase orders to align supplier deliverables with projects.
* Maintain the company's business system to ensure tactical communication & control of supplier deliverables, i.e P2P and S2P systems.
* Control and deliver the sourcing strategy for a selected group of technical materials/commodities ensuring near and forward operational alignment
* Actively manage supplier portfolio inclusive of Identifying, benchmarking and selecting new suppliers to deliver your sourcing strategy.
* Optimise the supplier base to leverage optimal cost/supply
* Deploy appropriate evaluation techniques to ensure that components are designed to optimise their manufacturing ease through out the entire Supply Chain
* Establish collaborative relationships that deliver an effective and efficient service to internal/external customers and suppliers.
* Facilitate resolution to supplier quality, serviceability, and performance related issues quickly to avoid repetition of issues.
* Utilise Relationships, Market Intelligence and Value Engineering actions to achieve a competitive differentiator.
* Manage supplier performance and quality using appropriate KPI’s and development plans.
Desired Experience, Skills and Qualifications
* Ability to positively collaborate with stakeholders in ambiguous, complex programme management environments.
* Demonstrable experience of evolving, negotiating and agreeing contractual requirements and collaboration frameworks between internal stakeholders and suppliers.
* To be considered for this role you will need to have knowledge and experience in one of the following fields:- complex electronics, vacuum technology and metal components, communication systems CMOS & CCD sensors, wafer processing,.
* Demonstrable experience of working within a demanding, low volume, highly complex, high value project environment. Ideally within Electronics Industry, Automotive, Manufacturing or similar.
* 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 project procurement and production methods.
* Knowledge of wider supply chain, materials management, demand forecasting and engineering change management principles: inclusive of an ability to understand engineering drawings.
* 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.
* Global travel may be required (10% of time)
* Ability to read technical drawings advantageous
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