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    Senior Buyer - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Marshall Group

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    • Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell), pension contributions up to 9%, healthcare cash plan for you and your family and an extensive flexible benefit program
    • Cambridge - hybrid working opportunities available around 3 days on site
    • We are able to offer flexibility around hours and working patterns
    • Marshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909


    Why join Marshall in this role:

    The Commodity Manager is a key role within our Procurement Shared Service that supports two of our Business Lines, Deployable Infrastructure and Vehicles & Mission Systems. This role will be accountable for a portfolio of Direct Commodity areas that contribute to our organisations manufacturing and design of a variety of infrastructure that supports military and humanitarian efforts across the Globe.

    We are looking for an experienced Commodity Manager/Senior Buyer/Supplier Manager who has a strategic and analytical mindset. You will thrive within an environment where you are able to be creative in approach and when solving problems, not afraid to challenge the status quo. You will have access to a wide variety of stakeholders and be able to influence across cross functional teams.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Utilise market research to make informed decisions on material and components
    • Shape bids to align with the commodity strategies and optimise the use of standardised components in the products we propose in customer bids
    • Work with design teams to deliver the commodity strategy optimise the use of standardised components
    • Input to and execute a sub-commodity strategy for the Business Lines
    • Development, management and implementation of sourcing plans in alignment with commodity strategy to deliver agreed savings targets and other benefits
    • Identify and execute ways to optimise the supplier base within the commodity balancing total cost and security of supply
    • Support complex negotiations and develop contractual agreements with global, regional and national suppliers
    • Execute RFx processes
    • Execute Supplier Relationship Management with strategic and critical suppliers in order to identify and develop innovative approaches to total cost of ownership (TCO)
    • Represent the commodity on forums
    • Liaison with suppliers to ensure they are able to meet Marshall requirements including OF.
    • Support the business in developing a strategy to reduce its supplier base.
    • Implement supplier reduction programme.
    • Conduct supplier monitoring and regular reviews and assessment program to measure quality and delivery performance and develop improvement plans as an outcome of theses reviews

    Technical Competencies/ Education:

    • Applicable degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Engineering or similar field preferred
    • MCIPS, similar qualification or working towards MCIPS
    • Risk Management
    • Application of market research/ analytics
    • Understanding of contract law and ability to negotiate contract terms with suppliers

    Key Skills:

    • Commodity/commodity delivery experience and ability to
    • Good grasp of commodity management and execution in manufacturing environment
    • Preferably experience of IFS or working with other ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle
    • Knowledgeable of supply chain processes including MRP, RFx, SRM, Commodity Management and understanding of procure to pay

    The benefits we will offer you include:

    • 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
    • Pension contributions up to 9%
    • Private medical insurance for you and your partner
    • Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
    • Life assurance at 4x basic salary
    • Enhanced parental leave and pay
    • Paid volunteering leave
    • Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

    Based in the UK, with operations in Canada, Marshall specialises in the design and production of deployable operational infrastructure and mission support for humanitarian, defence and security operations across the globe.

    Other core services include the integration of complex systems into a range of vehicles for use by the military and security services including explosive ordnance disposal and battlefield ambulances all underpinned by a full in-life managed service provision to ensure customers' equipment is available where and when they need it.

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