Job DescriptionJob Title: Senior Strategic Buyers
Location: Guildford or Coventry
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to become part of a scale-up, where your contributions will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our forward-thinking company. With its rapid growth trajectory and dynamic nature, Forseven offers you an exceptional platform to help drive strategy as we expand into new horizons.
What you will do:- Responsible for the negotiation and completion of Production Supplier Contracts within your given complex commodity group.
- Working closely in a match trio with Engineering and Supplier Quality you will develop our Supplier strategy ensuring that we are leveraging the best technology, cost and quality from the market.
- Negotiation of high value Contracts with Global Tier 1 Suppliers.
- Conduct assessments of potential Suppliers and work with the Engineering Partner on the creation of Sourcing recommendations.
- Ensure that Supplier is able to fulfil Programme targets, including; timing, cost, quality, technical attributes.
We would like you to have:- Previous Purchasing experience in a Buyer or Senior Buyer role essential.
- Experience in a complex manufacturing environment essential and Automotive strongly preferred.
- Will have extensive experience in developing structured Commodity Strategies. This should include; risk assessment, Total Acquisition Cost assessment, NPV and working with other functions to ensure technical and quality criteria are assessed.
- Extensive experience of negotiating complex Contracts essential.
- Deep understanding how to interrogate component costs essential and experience of working with Cost Engineers preferable.
