SITE PURCHASING INDIRECT PROFESSIONAL -

OP Mobility; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mobility solutions provider in Birmingham seeks a SITE PURCHASING INDIRECT PROFESSIONAL to manage purchasing activities, evaluate suppliers, and lead negotiations. The ideal candidate will optimize costs, oversee order processes, and enhance supplier relationships while committing to performance goals. Strong organizational and communication skills required. This role focuses on driving efficiencies within the purchasing department.

Responsibilities

• Manage purchasing activities in line with governance rules and policies.
• Evaluate the local supply base through a vendor rating process.
• Conduct risk management with the Finance department.
• Benchmark MRO costs with other plants to identify improvement opportunities.
• Develop synergies with other buyers to optimize costs.
• Manage supply base relationships and solve supplier issues.
• Report MRO performance through standard KPIs and commit to savings.
• Lead negotiations with suppliers for best solutions and costs.
• Manage Purchasing requests and launch RFQ processes.
• Prepare sourcing recommendations and manage ordering processes.
• Implement global contracts at the plant level.
• Optimize and track the order to pay process.
• Promote technical savings proposed by suppliers.
• Lead internal working groups for savings identification.

Job description

SITE PURCHASING INDIRECT PROFESSIONAL -

• Manages the activities in line with the POAE governance rules, purchasing policy and in the respect of the processes in place.
• Is the owner of the plant supply base: is accountable for the local supply base and evaluate it through a vendor rating process once a year.
• Is responsible for the risk management with the support of the Finance department (financial health of suppliers, penetration rate, …)
• Compares the MRO costs and purchasing conditions with the ones of the other POAE plants – Benchmark the data and identify opportunities of improvement
• Contributes to the plants synergies, developing the conditions with the other buyers to leverage the volumes and optimize the costs
• Manages the supply base relationships according to PO purchasing policy. Solve the issues with the suppliers
• Follows and reports the MRO performance through the standard KPIs. Commit on savings. Reports monthly and declare the savings achieved in the respect of the processes and rules in place.
• Leads the negotiation with the suppliers: Ensures a fair competition between suppliers. Makes sure 3 competitors at least compete to provide best technical solution and lowest landed cost.
• Manages the Purchasing requests flow and launch the RFQ process for the plant.
• Prepares the sourcing recommendations and present them in sourcing.
• After sourcing approval, manages the ordering process in the respect of the law, in line with the legal constraints and obligations and PO policy.
• Manages the plant contracts and implement, for the plant, the global contracts managed by the lead buyer.
• Optimizes the order to pay process, proposing solutions for recurrent purchases.
• Manages the order to pay process, tracking the supplier activities to be managed up to full achievement and payment of the supplier
• Promotes the technical savings proposed by the suppliers
• Takes part and lead the internal working groups for technical savings identification or problem solving.

Lead buying Activities

The MRO buyer can take responsibilities in some lead buying activities. As such, in addition of his MRO buyer assignment, the buyer may be responsible to conduct the following activities :

• Defines the purchasing strategies for the scope of commodities, identifying the market opportunities and key drivers
• Coordinates the other MRO buyers network for the scope of commodities
• Builds up the data bases for the scope of commodities
• Defines the supply base for the commodities. Manage the relationships with the players
• Drives the RFQ and propose the sourcing choices to the various plant representatives and Purchasing management
• Delivers and commit on the savings for the scope of work
• Negotiates contracts reaching POAE objectives in terms of costs, quality, delivery, flexibility

KPIs and main deliverables

• MRO KPIS (Commodities productivities, quality issues, number of suppliers, right first time invoicing, sourcing in compliance with target)

Coordination Activities

The MRO buyer can take responsibilities in coordination activities. As such, in addition of his assignment, the buyer may coordinate some management activities :

• Drives the coordination with the buyers to provide good feedback on the activity, deploy the business knowledge and provide a forum for discussion and exchanges, fostering a trust climate conducting to best practices, performance and achievement and motivation.
• Supports and drive the team members in line with the objectives
• Assesses the team members in terms of skills and performance
• Participates to the recruitment process and yearly assessment
• Manages the activities in line with the POAE governance rules, purchasing policy and in the respect of the processes in place. Is responsible for the good use of POAE information system tool.
• Consolidates the performance and report the team activity and achievements to the Plant Director and the BU/Operations MRO manager.