Buyer

Assystem GmbH; Derby; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Buyer, where you will play a crucial role in shaping the Supply Chain Strategy. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with Suppliers and other Buyers to standardise contract management processes. With a strong emphasis on negotiation and building strategic relationships, you will ensure that service delivery meets contractual obligations. If you are a results-driven professional with a passion for the energy transition, this is your chance to contribute to impactful projects in a dynamic environment. Embrace this opportunity to make a difference in the energy sector while advancing your career.

Qualifications

• BA degree or equivalent or significant industry experience required.
• Ideally MCIPs qualified or equivalent with a proven track record.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a new specific Supply Chain Strategy.
• Collaborate with Suppliers to standardise Contract Management.

Skills

Supply Chain Strategy

Contract Management

Negotiation

Stakeholder Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Defence Contracts Knowledge

Education

BA degree or equivalent

MCIPs qualification

Job description

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.

Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.

We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.

Drawing on more than 55 years’ experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.

To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all.

Job Description

Assystem Energy & Infrastructure are recruiting for a Buyer to work at our customer's site in Derby on a 6-month contract basis.

• Job title: Buyer

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Defining and executing a new specific Supply Chain Strategy.
• Collaborating to understand requirements and Supplier challenges to later define and execute a new Supply Chain Strategy.
• Implementing and agreeing new Terms and Conditions and Framework agreements to standardise across the Group's inherited Supply Chain and Submarine’s specific newly onboarded Suppliers.
• Collaborating with other Buyers and the Service Delivery Leads to assist in standardising Contract Management across the Service Estate and implementing Service Delivery Operational Management Meetings, including ensuring contractual SLA’s are measurable and enforceable.
• Negotiating new Service Descriptions and an ‘Evergreen’ operating model with our selected current incumbent Suppliers' contracts.

My Profile

Qualifications and Experience:

• BA degree or equivalent or significant industry experience.
• Ideally MCIPs qualified or equivalent.
• Has a proven track record of delivering results.
• Knowledge of Defence Contracts.
• Working closely with Suppliers to build strategic relationships with experience dealing with and managing escalations between Stakeholders and Suppliers.
• Experience in contract management and a proven track record with negotiating as well as running a tender process end to end.

Security Clearance

This role requires the successful candidate to hold a minimum of a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance.

Due to the nature of work this role will be delivering and for the protection of certain assets, the successful candidate has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non-ITAR country.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter! Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.