Operations & Maintenance Buyer - Swindon, United Kingdom - RWE Renewables UK Management Ltd.
Description
RWE Renewables UK Management Ltd.
To start as soon as possible, Full time, Permanent
As an Operation & Maintenance Buyer in our Offshore Procurement team, you will support our operational sites with the purchasing of their required spare parts, consumables and services.
An excellent development opportunity for someone that has had some procurement exposure and is keen to progress in this area.
Duties to include:
- Hold regular meetings with site warehouse staff in order to meet contractual needs of the site/s and encourage early procurement involvement
- Develop and Maintain stakeholder relationships (internal and external) to positively impact the procurement cycle and procurement and operations collaboration
- Prepare tender documents, issue tenders and carry out tender evaluations for all spare parts requirements
- Prepare approval and confirmation award documentation to support contract award decisions and then place Framework Agreements for spare parts
- Set up SAP contracts for preferred suppliers to allow for an automated stock process
- Create and maintain source lists linking the relevant sites to the SAP contracts
- Be the interface to the warehouse teams to amend PO creation if price/lead time necessitates a change from the preferred supplier
- Vary agreements and update pricing in SAP contracts as and when required
- Seek out additional spare parts suppliers to improve spare part options and set any new suppliers up in SAP
- Where automation is not activated, create purchase orders for spare parts
- Vendor invoice management provide invoice query support for site PO's including framework/main component to mitigate payment issues
- Use RWE systems to support on progress steps in job role, including; Supplier Lifecycle for supplier prequalifications
- Experience in buying goods and services previously
- MCIPS member or studying to become a MCIPS accredited member would be advantageous
- Experience and/or understanding of wind farms operations advantageous
- Ability to effectively understand commercial risks to minimise impacts to the project
- Experienced in building relationships
- Selfmotivation and drive to deliver on commitments
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required to support delivery of the procurement activities
RWE represents change, innovation and sustainability.
As one of the world's leading generators of electricity from renewable energy sources, we aim to be carbon-neutral by 2040 and to enable a sustainable life for people around the world.
To achieve this, we are looking for dynamic and motivated people to join us in creating a sustainable and secure energy future.
RWE Renewables GmbH, based in Essen, Germany, is RWE's youngest subsidiary and one of the world's leading companies in the field of renewable energies.
With an international team of around 3,500 employees, we are drivers of the energy transition - and provide electricity for a sustainable life.
Our total capacity of more than 9 gigawatts results from onshore and offshore wind parks, photovoltaic plants and battery storage.
We focus on growth:
on the American continent, on the European core markets and on new markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
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