Senior Global Strategy Buyer - Gaydon, United Kingdom - Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover
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Gaydon, United Kingdom

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REQ ID:
112909


JOB TITLE:
Senior Global Strategy Buyer


SALARY:
£39,400 - £50,000


POSTING END DATE:
02/04/2023


LOCATION:
Gaydon


Beyond Property, Purchasing, HR and IT, more than being part of our Finance or Marketing teams, beyond even Sales and Service, every role in every business area offers unique opportunities to make an impact on the future of mobility and the automotive industry.


WHAT TO EXPECT


This is an exciting opportunity to join the Procurement team within Electrical Production Purchasing at Jaguar Land Rover, where you'll join a fast-moving team responsible for bringing JLR vehicles into a digital world of Connected Cars, Electrification and more.


Reporting to the Electrical Purchasing Manager you will have Global responsibility for specific commodities within Electrical Purchasing on behalf of JLR.

You will utilise your experience to analyse, define, and implement market and sourcing strategies for your designated commodities.

Both Global Strategy and Sourcing activity will be supported by the Regional Delivery teams for your commodities, utilising regional market intelligence and expertise.

You will lead the development of the supplier and internal stakeholder relationships to ensure strategic and programme alignment.

You will manage suppliers and internal stakeholders for your designated commodities ensuring that the Global Commodity Strategy and Supply Base Market strategy is effectively deployed throughout all of JLR and the external supply chain.


You will support and work closely with the Regional Delivery teams and engage with specialists within the Purchasing Function to ensure optimum value creation and delivery for Jaguar Land Rover as well as leading stakeholder relationships and ensuring JLR is appropriately represented both internally and externally.


This is a pivotal role for interface with other key functions within Jaguar Land Rover and acts as a core conduit for true cross functional working across Production Purchasing, STA, Product Engineering, Cost Engineering and Design.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities


Strategy & Sourcing:

  • Responsible for Strategic Commodity Dossier (SCD) and Commodity Business Plan (CBP) generation and delivery, ensuring relevant data is updated, understood and maintained in order to make strategic recommendations

Supplier Relationship Management:

  • Participate in Supplier Business Reviews to develop supplier relationships in accordance with the supplier segmentation model
  • Ensure supplier briefing templates are kept uptodate to enable senior stakeholder briefings

Other:

  • Act as central coordination to ensure appropriate information exchange from and to all regional buyers
  • Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Knowledge, Skills & Experience


Essential:

  • Ability to work independently, results driven, demonstrating tenacity, drive and perseverance with the ability to deliver operational plans in a complex, fast moving and highly demanding environment.
  • Capability to create high quality short, medium and long term purchasing strategies
  • A resilient and enthusiastic individual who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs
  • A strong communicator with the ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders to influence crossfunctional engagement
  • An effective team player, actively develops and supports team members
  • Maintaining compliance with standard policies and procedures
  • Translating analytical results into detailed, robust actionable recommendations to the business

Desirable:

  • An individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style
  • Experience of working in a global, multicultural environment
  • Degree qualified or equivalent experience

SO WHY US?


Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you'll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and performance related bonus scheme.

All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.


This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office.

At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role.

Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.
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