We’re looking for a Buyer to play a key role in managing our supply chain across complex, high-value engineering projects. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with suppliers and internal teams to ensure components are delivered safely, on time, to the required quality and within cost.
Reporting to the UK Sourcing Leader, you’ll be responsible for managing supplier relationships, supporting procurement activities, resolving supply chain issues and identifying opportunities to improve performance and reduce risk.
Location: Rugby, with travel to suppliers as required (6 months office based, hybrid afterwards)
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 DOE + 10% annual bonus + benefits (10% employer pension contribution, healthcare cover, life insurance)
Key Responsibilities
- Negotiate and manage supplier terms and conditions, including claims and supplier recovery
- Manage purchase orders, order fulfilment, invoice queries and supplier expediting to ensure on-time delivery
- Monitor supplier performance against schedule, cost, quality and manufacturing requirements
- Coordinate supplier and product qualification activities with Quality and Engineering teams
- Identify supply chain risks and develop appropriate mitigation plans
- Develop alternative sources and risk mitigation strategies for single and sole-source suppliers
- Identify and deliver cost-saving and value-adding opportunities across the supply chain
- Support the resolution of commercial, technical, quality and delivery issues
- Support engineering changes, quality escalations and supplier recovery activities
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience in Buying, Procurement, Sourcing or Supply Chain, ideally within an engineering or manufacturing environment
- Experience managing suppliers and purchase orders within a project-based environment
- Strong negotiation and commercial skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to resolving issues
- Good IT skills, including SAP and Microsoft Office
- Experience with MS Project would be beneficial
Desirable Experience
- Experience within the Power, Energy, Nuclear, Defence or Engineering industries
- Experience working with complex or high-value engineering products
- Supplier Quality or Quality Engineering experience
- Previous SC clearance would be beneficial but is not essential
Additional Information
This is a high-volume, high-value project environment, where you’ll be managing established suppliers and supporting multiple workstreams at the same time.
The successful candidate will need to be able to travel to UK supplier sites when required and be comfortable managing competing priorities, supplier issues and project escalations.
This work is undertaken with UK Defence customers, which will require the successful candidate to hold or be capable of obtaining SC Level clearance as a UK passport holder. Applicants who are not cleared will not be accepted into the business until the required clearance is provided.
Dual passport holders are acceptable where the second country is approved by the relevant vetting authority.