Senior Sub- Buyer

Location: Edinburgh

Contract: 6-Months

Pay: Up to £45p/h Inside IR35 (DOE)

Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of sub-contract activities and other procurement-related services which may be required by the business
• Lead relationships with suppliers, holding reviews, ensuring performance management, risks and impacts.
• Negotiate complex agreements and risk/reward mechanisms for business case models
• Translate customer/project requirements into commercial documents, particularly pertaining to the design, development and production of bespoke complex electronic systems and sub-systems
• Understand mechanisms of mitigating risk associated with entering into commercial agreements
• Develop and negotiate robust contracts for services, intangible and tangible deliverables
• Working in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the flowdown of appropriate terms and conditions from customer contracts to enable compliance with contractual obligations and mitigate commercial/contractual risks
• Focal point for project and suppliers regarding contract and supply base matters
• Drives and leads strategies to influence business decisions throughout the project life cycle
• Identify solutions for complex areas of potential risk /opportunity e.g. sub-contract risk, IPR, liability and exchange rate exposure etc. and deliver solutions/mitigations

Experience required:

• A good working knowledge of SAP
• Requires technical training to degree standard, professional qualification and/or significant domain experience (studying towards or achievement of MCIPS is preferred)
• Demonstrated collaboration, communication, planning, problem solving, influencing, decision making and continuous improvement skills
• A good working knowledge and understanding of Procurement within the Defence/Aerospace industry (or a similar sector)