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Role Description
At Tata Technologies, we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering, and validating the products of tomorrow for the world’s leading manufacturers. Due to our continued growth, we are recruiting for an Automotive Buyer based in Warwick.
The role is available either as a 12-month fixed-term contract or contracting (Inside of IR35 for 12 months).
The Role
Reporting to the Regional Purchasing Manager, this role will see you have responsibility for managing the external supply chain for our customer’s automotive suppliers. Your main focus and priority will be ensuring supplier performance to meet Quality, Cost, Delivery, Innovation, and Sustainability (QCDIS) requirements.
Areas of Responsibility
- Responsible for all post-sourcing commercial contract and change management activities for designated commodities and suppliers.
- Acting within a core team of Production Purchasing, Product Engineering, Supplier Technical Assistance (STA), Material Planning and Logistics (MP&L), Cost Estimating, and Manufacturing.
Cost Management
- Ensuring effective cost management of particular automotive commodities and suppliers, which will involve launching new products at their target cost as well as achieving year-on-year cost reduction on current spend to deliver against savings targets.
- Responsibility for resolution of in-contract commercial issues including invoices relating to price queries, annual cost reduction, tooling costs, design changes, and all liability claims.
- Lead negotiations with external suppliers for both current and future products.
- Support all Ex Works activities related to the programme.
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Supplier Relationship Management:
- Participate in and lead Supplier Business Reviews with your suppliers to develop supplier relationships and ensure performance.
- Support stakeholder engagement and internal relationship management, and act as the primary interface with Product Engineering for designated commodities/parts, to ensure cross-functional alignment on quality, cost, delivery, innovation, and sustainability requirements.
- Support the Global Strategy Leaders, to develop the supplier relationships globally for your designated commodities.
You will be responsible for commercial contract validation activities on behalf of our customer which includes, but is not limited to:
- Validation activities of core commercial/contractual elements and costs for example:
- Labour (direct and indirect)/Manning (direct/indirect) and overall supplier programme resources
- Process time for manufacturing process, key material flows, and information flows
- How parts are manufactured – bill of design and bill of process (method of manufacture/key materials/location(s) of manufacture/BOF content and understanding of key BOF cost elements and drivers)
- Tooling and location of manufacture
- OEE/Shift Patterns/JPH achievement and capacity flexibility, breakpoints, and sensitivity analysis around volumes
- Value Stream Maps – all key material and information flows mapped and understood at production system, supply chain, sub-tier, and sub-tier supply chain variables
- BOF Parts and Supply Chain maps
- Tariffs duties and incentives around total value stream and any contingency and business continuity considerations which need to be incorporated into contractual or commercial framework moving forward
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Experience / Knowledge
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience
- Buying experience with components in areas of body engineering or powertrain
- Delivering complex supply chain solutions in a fast-paced, high-pressured manufacturing environment
- Implementing and delivering purchasing strategies with the focus on total value chain delivery
- Identify opportunities for creating value in a commodity or commodities
- A resilient and enthusiastic individual who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs
- A strong communicator with the ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders to influence cross-functional engagement
Tata Technologies: Engineering a better world.
We thank all applicants for their interest. Applications will be reviewed against the role criteria. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days, your application has not been successful; however, your details may be retained for future opportunities.
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