Senior Project Buyer (Engineering)

Portfolio Procurement; Braintree; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading procurement company in the UK is looking for a Senior Engineering Buyer to lead procurement for innovative manufacturing technologies. The role involves collaborating with teams to ensure efficient procurement and managing supplier performance in a complex project environment. Ideal candidates will possess strong negotiation skills and experience in technical components. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team focused on delivering high-quality products.

Qualifications

• Experience in a low volume, highly complex environment.
• Strong collaboration skills in procurement activities.
• Ability to understand and negotiate supplier contracts.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement activities for assigned division.
• Control and deliver sourcing strategy for technical commodities.
• Manage supplier performance based on KPI's.

Skills

Collaboration with stakeholders

Negotiating contractual requirements

Reading technical drawings

Experience in complex project environments

SAP ERP/MRP knowledge

Understanding of clean room manufacturing

Procurement project methods

Supply chain knowledge

Data management skills

Value engineering methodologies

Supplier quality management

MS Office proficiency

Job description

Job Purpose

The Senior Engineering Buyer will lead procurement activities for their assigned division. They will be charged with procuring cutting‑edge technologies used in manufacturing. The role sits within a dynamic team who collaborate to overcome technical and commercial challenges in pursuit of delivering world class products. You will ensure that procurement is efficient, cost effective and meets the needs of the business and its customers.

Job Description

• Deliver direct procurement activities in collaboration with various teams.
• Utilise subcontracts, supply contracts, quantity contracts and purchase orders to align supplier deliverables.
• Control and deliver the sourcing strategy for a selected group of technical materials/commodities.
• Ensure engineering best practice techniques are used to ensure that components are designed to optimise their manufacturing ease throughout the entire supply chain.
• Establish collaborative relationships that deliver an effective and efficient service to internal/external customers and suppliers.
• Manage supplier performance and quality using appropriate KPI's and development plans.

Key Skills and Experience required

• Ability to positively collaborate with stakeholders in a complex environment.
• Demonstrable experience of evolving, negotiating, and agreeing contractual requirements and collaboration frameworks between internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Must have the ability to read technical drawings and have an understanding of metal components.
• Experience of working within a demanding, low volume, highly complex, high value project environment. Ideally within the Space or Electronics Industry.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP ERP/MRP (or similar) would be highly advantageous.
• A good understanding of technical/clean room manufacturing environment would be advantageous.
• Demonstrable knowledge of procurement project and MRP production methods.
• Knowledge of wider supply chain, materials management, demand forecasting and engineering change management principles.
• Strong Excel / data management skills.
• Knowledge of value engineering and cost down methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of supplier quality management techniques.
• MS Office proficient – Word, Excel, Access, Project, Visio, PowerPoint.