Buyer, Supply Chain​/Logistics

The Commodity Buyer acts as the single point of accountability for their commodity, owning all commercial and supply chain activities from initial concept through to end-of-life. Working closely with Engineering, Programme Management, Suppliers, and Operations, they ensure supplier selection, development, readiness, and industrialisation activities are delivered successfully to support programme timing, cost, quality, and performance targets.

• Negotiating contracts, prices and terms of business with suppliers and reviewing opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
• Lead the Matched Trio team during the sourcing of commodities for new projects reporting progress to the Programme Purchasing team
• Ensuring a continuous supply of required goods and materials during the relevant development phase and communicate any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations
• Supporting and resolving commercial issues in the production supply chain
• Developing commodity strategies for own commodities
• Assisting with the purchase and supply chain of global production for specified projects through negotiated costs with suppliers and deliver value to the business
• Purchasing goods, materials, components or services in line with the specified cost, quality and delivery targets
• Researching and evaluating areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible
• Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement
• Stakeholder engagement at all levels both internally and with our external suppliers
• Researching and owning the strategic relationships with suppliers and subcontractors
• Supporting product change requests during the development phases and review and communicate the impact on capacity plans
• Developing and improving Procurement processes as required.
• For personal growth and where required support XP/Experiment projects, prototypes and the negotiation of Indirects contracts
• Act as escalation for the Logistics team in relation to delivery/commercial issues and for the STA team as required
• Own strategic relationship with suppliers
• Hybrid working with at least 2-3 days in the office
• Ability to travel as required.

• Previous proven experience within a similar role
• Experience working in an automotive or manufacturing environment
• Previous exposure and experience to working with raw material market data, indices & platforms
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of automotive processes and components and supply chain management
• Experience of stakeholder management
• Experience in supplier/customer relationship management
• Understanding of cost drivers in a manufacturing environment and experience in leading cost reduction activities
• Results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines
• An organised approach with good business acumen
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to work effectively with teams
• Good IT skills including PowerPoint, Excel and Word
• Good understanding of the need for diplomacy and confidentiality
• Good attention to detail
  
  Self-motivated with a can-do attitude
• Proactively contributes to the team
• Flexible approach to work

• Experience of using Microsoft Dynamics Navision (NAV)
• Experience of working within a Tier 1 Automotive environment
• MCIPS or studying towards CIPS qualification.

Internal:
Supplier Quality, Engineering, PMO, Innovation.
External:
Suppliers, Mercedes-Benz.

Budgets managed: NO
Direct reports: N/A