Commodity Buyer - Rail

Job Title: Commodity Buyer - Rail Sector

37 hours per week

6 Month Contract.

£21.93 PAYE

£28.96 UMB

Position Overview:

As a Commodity Buyer you will play a pivotal role in the procurement team, focusing on sourcing and acquiring commodities essential to rail sector operations. This includes managing supplier relationships, negotiating contracts, and ensuring the timely and cost-effective procurement of materials vital to our projects.

Principal Accountability's

• Supporting Tender Procurement Managers to commit on material prices on all commodities not covered by Central Lead Buyers
• Sign off the "as sold Bill of Materials" for tenders in coordination with relevant Global Commodity Management and Tender Procurement Managers
• Keep track and stick to the Sourcing Plan for your commodity

Manage purchase contracts for the commodity in scope

• Development of Sourcing Strategies for your Commodity
• Provide input to Commodity Management regarding their Business Unit specific Procurement needs, the evaluation of supplier performance, the description of the supply base and finally collection of past and future spend data
• Establish Requests for Quotations (RFQ's) including commercial and technical requirements, evaluate and select suppliers offers, place orders and control file transfer
• Managing contracts for risk management, claims, conflict resolutions, feedback and input into bids from lessons learnt, Monitor end of lifetime.

Develop supplier 'best in class' performance

• Manage the commercial relationship with suppliers in line with sourcing strategies
• Ensuring suppliers are globally competitive and enabling the business to gain competitive advantage
• Develop long term supplier relationships through regular performance reviews and continually drive cost improvements
• Utilise appropriate tools and techniques effectively to ensure that Procurement delivers its cost and performance requirements e.g. global sourcing, cost improvements, Open Book Costing, Value Engineering, Value Stream Mapping
• Where relevant, accurately capture and communicate to the suppliers the relevant project-specific Technical Requirements
• Where relevant, involve and manage suppliers into a joint product design development process (JDDP) in order to integrate efficiently supplier solutions.

Manage material cost reduction activities

• Responsible for delivering cost reduction targets.

BReed

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