Senior Buyer Rolling Stock - Derby, United Kingdom - Shorterm Group

Shorterm Group
Shorterm Group
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Derby, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Senior Buyer


Job Location:
Derby


Start Date:

ASAP

Salary:
£30 - £35 per hour UMBRELLA

Contract: 12 months +

Hours: 37 hours per week


Client Summary:


My client is a global engineering organisation currently seeking a Supply Chain Coordinator to join their team in Burton on Trent.

With locations across the globe this is a truly international organisation that is seen as a market leader in their sector.

The successful Supply Chain Coordinator will join a team which acts as the central point of contact for a number of UK sites.

This team is responsible for managing the supply of materials and commodities crucial to the engineering/manufacturing processes ateach site.

Position Summary:

  • To build total market knowledge of the respective commodities and associated supply chain to reduce full life cycle costs.
  • To represent Procurement at Fleet Management, Heavy Maintenance and Crash across UK Service region (mature markets and emerging markets).
  • P+L responsible to the UK Services region, including South Africa
  • To be responsible for managing all commercial relationships with their suppliers and their subgroup of suppliers (high value, high strategic importance and high complexity)
  • Take full responsibility for driving supplier performance improvements and develop innovative supply chain improvements
  • To lead initiatives to improve cross functional teamwork ensuring that commodity and region wide supporting strategies are adopted

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop regional commodity strategy and support bids for friction materials.
  • Manage Supply Chain Performance
  • Build total market knowledge of respective commodities and subgroups
  • Owns the product proposition for the end customer
  • Define and implement deployment of best practice supply chain methodology
  • Lead and negotiate, for bids, with relevant activities e.g., JDDP and target costs
  • Negotiate stock holding levels at suppliers in conjunction with Procurement Operations team.
  • Sets target service levels
  • Coordinate strategy with divisional colleagues to ensure strategic fit with regional and divisional procurement.
  • Implement appropriate contractual arrangements with suppliers e.g., LTSA, STC and MSA.
  • Agree "best fit" supply base by commodity
  • Responsible for all commercial aspects of supplier relationship 30%
  • Manage Cost Reduction
  • Accountable for Code 30+ activity and to deploy various tools to drive cost reduction, regionally and globally,
  • To actively engage with colleagues within the Bombardier Procurement network to maximize ideas for delivering cost reduction both regionally and divisionally.
  • Complete responsibility for life cycle costs on respective commodities for all projects
  • Design, develop and implement actions to mitigate risks as well as maximizing the financial performance of the project.
  • Manage Supplier Performance
  • Responsible for supplier performance for the commodity, utilizing standard BT tools.
  • Manage and coordinate Suppliers to achieve improvement targets, utilizing regional resource to achieve this objective
  • Improve and maintain supply chain performance KPIs
  • Lead key discussions at poor performing suppliers
  • Develop the SRM model for the top commodity suppliers and develop as part of a "road map" approach
  • Manage Interface with Regions and Core
  • Develop appropriate strategic direction and align with peer groups
  • Ensure correct strategic fit to each business unit requirements
  • Establish excellent working relationship with regional and divisional procurement teams including business heads, ensuring that commodity strategies are developed/ maintained
  • Monitor commercial and technical risks associated with the sources, materials, services and the processes during all phases of a Purchase Contract.
  • Support bids, projects and external customers as required.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Strong Supply Chain Management background including risk management identification and mitigation.
  • Demonstrable track record of cost reduction within life cycle costs model
  • Developing improved service propositions for the end customer
  • Ability to drive change across regions, culture and geography
  • Strategic/tactical management capability


  • Supplier performance improvement

  • QCDR
  • Knowledgeable of Warehousing and Distribution logistics operations
  • Continuous improvement background
  • Negotiation skills
  • Strong reporting skills
  • Strong financial capability
  • CIPS qualified/equivalent
  • Degree qualifications ideally
  • SAP/ERP experience

Contact Information:

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PLEASE NOTE ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE ABLE TO PASS A DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TEST BEFORE BEING OFFERED A POSITION.
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