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Location: West Sussex
Job type: Permanent
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Sector: Sales & Purchasing
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Job Locations : UK-West Sussex-Slinfold
Category : Purchasing
Position Type : Permanent FT
Overview
The key element of the role is to provide market and company analysis to propose a robust commodity/category strategy. The data provided will support AJW commercial bidding process, supplier contracts and compliance to ensure AJW are buying components at the right quality, cost and delivery. The role is heavily focused on reducing risks and costs within AJW supply chain and increasing competitive advantage.
Responsibilities
* Ensure purchasing activity is in accordance with business unit SLAs, KPI’s and ‘on time and in full’ delivery.
* Coordinate, monitor and actively engage in price negotiation.
* Ensure purchasing activity protects company margin and is controlled through applying cost analysis techniques.
* Act as the central best practice expert for procurement activities in relation to the relevant commodity.
* Lead Stocking agreements and call offs with suppliers where appropriate.
* Ownership of project plans that deliver the objectives set. Manage these plans to ensure deadlines and budgets are met and that the necessary communications and risk mitigations are in place. Will create well-structured supporting documents and presentations.
* Maintain and document processes to ensure efficiency and team compliance.
* Purchasing data mapping/analysis. Efficiently and reliably identify key insightful and compelling findings in order to prepare a comprehensive area/vendor/commodity profile. Gain a detailed understanding of business requirements and ensure these are built into sourcing strategies.
* Provide insight on particular markets and identifies how the market drivers and trends will influence the procurement activity.
* Assist with data gathering and implementation of supplier scorecards. Puts in place effective communication and tools to ensure non compliance is minimised and provides mechanism to ensure business units know how to seek approval for genuine non compliance.
* Proactively and independently gather all required inputs and develop complex ITT/RFP documentation with relevant stakeholders. Can manage a structured evaluation process.
* Provide new metrics and support existing KPI’s to understand performance and identify areas for improvement. Understand the relationship between the KPIs and contractual remedies.
* Support any work related to continuous improvement initiatives by providing a functional perspective in order to enable and sustain such initiatives.
* Contract negotiation: Includes provisions with supplier contracts to drive innovation and sets minimum expected targets. Consider value of sharing the benefits derived from realising innovative concepts with suppliers.
* Provide innovative ideas to improve business line offerings and strategies.
* Provide lessons learnt and amend processes against existing strategies.
* Ensure the provision of relevant information to the business line and management team.
* Adequately document and demonstrate how value for money has been achieved.
* Enable through professional procurement techniques delivery, the best result for the business line.
* Build strong peer relationships.
* Provide training and workshops to internal stakeholders when delivering new strategies and tailor complex information to a variety of audiences.
Person Specification
To succeed in this role, the Strategic Buyer should have proven experience of working in a strategic role. The candidate should have strong change management skills and be innovative and creative. Have strong negotiating skills and contracting experience with customers and suppliers. Have experience in data analysis and building strategies from data. A background in Aviation is highly advantageous. Should be degree qualified or HND equivalent, working towards CIPS ideally achieved level 5 status.
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