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Job summary
Join Leonardo UK Ltd as a Senior Category Buyer in Luton, focusing on electronics procurement. This strategic role involves sourcing and managing supplier relationships, ensuring compliance, and implementing category strategies while enjoying a competitive benefits package, flexible working options, and strong employee development support.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience defining and implementing category strategies.
- Support strategic Make or Buy decisions and M&A strategies.
- Conduct risk analyses to mitigate purchasing risks.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement category strategies.
- Oversee suppliers to ensure compliance with contracts.
- Perform market trend analysis and provide purchasing solutions.
Skills
Job Description:
The Opportunity:
Join the Electronics Procurement Category Management team as a Senior Category Buyer, focusing on electronics and interconnect & cable assemblies. You will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and managing supplier and stakeholder relationships.
What you’ll do:
- Define and implement category strategies.
- Analyze spend categories to assess impact on business and identify potential actions.
- Develop strategic sourcing to reduce costs, ensure timely delivery, and maintain high supply quality.
- Oversee suppliers and subcontractors to verify compliance with contractual terms, monitor performance, and address critical issues with recovery plans.
What we need from you:
- Experience in defining and implementing category strategies.
- Support strategic Make or Buy decisions, vertical integration, and M&A strategies.
- Conduct risk analyses to mitigate purchasing risks.
- Support offset strategies and develop external cost analyses.
- Assist sales in developing economical offers.
- Analyze categories to identify potential actions.
- Determine optimal supplier numbers and mixes.
- Collaborate with internal functions to provide purchasing solutions.
- Perform market trend analysis and business intelligence activities.
- Apply relevant sourcing strategies by macrocategory.
- Support tactical Make or Buy decisions and operational procurement as needed.
- Define long-term sourcing strategies with suppliers.
- Monitor supply contracts and develop recovery plans for critical issues.
Security Clearance:
You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information, visit: UK Security Vetting Levels
Life at Leonardo:
Enjoy a benefits package, learning opportunities, flexible working hours, and a focus on employee development. We offer:
- Flexible Working: Hybrid options and part-time opportunities.
- Benefits: Private healthcare, dental, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, and lifestyle allowances.
- Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, with options to buy/sell leave and accrue additional flexi days.
- Pension: Up to 15% employer contribution.
- Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, mental health support, financial wellbeing, and diversity & inclusion networks.
- Lifestyle: Discounted gym memberships and Cycle to Work scheme.
- Training: Access to over 4000 online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn.
Primary Location: GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300
Additional Locations: GB - Edinburgh
Contract Type: Hybrid
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.
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