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The Commodity Buyer
The Commodity Buyer acts as the single point of accountability for their commodity, owning all commercial and supply chain activities from initial concept through to end-of-life. Working closely with Engineering, Programme Management, Suppliers, and Operations, they ensure supplier selection, development, readiness, and industrialisation activities are delivered successfully to support programme timing, cost, quality, and performance targets.
Key Responsibilities
- Negotiating contracts, prices, and terms of business with suppliers and reviewing opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
- Leading the Matched Trio team during the sourcing of commodities for new projects and reporting progress to the Programme Purchasing team
- Ensuring a continuous supply of required goods and materials during the relevant development phase and communicating any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations
- Supporting and resolving commercial issues in the production supply chain
- Developing commodity strategies for own commodities
- Assisting with the purchase and supply chain of global production for specified projects through negotiated costs with suppliers and delivering value to the business
- Purchasing goods, materials, components, or services in line with the specified cost, quality, and delivery targets
- Researching and evaluating areas of opportunity and reducing costs where possible
- Developing ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance, and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement
- Engaging stakeholders at all levels both internally and with our external suppliers
- Researching and owning the strategic relationships with suppliers and subcontractors
- Supporting product change requests during the development phases and reviewing and communicating the impact on capacity plans
- Developing and improving Procurement processes as required
- Supporting personal growth and, where required, supporting XP/Experiment projects, prototypes, and the negotiation of Indirects contracts
- Acting as escalation for the Logistics team in relation to delivery/commercial issues and for the STA team as required
- Owning strategic relationships with suppliers
- Hybrid working with at least 2-3 days in the office
- Ability to travel as required
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Person Specification
Skills and Experience Required
- Previous proven experience within a similar role
- Experience working in an automotive or manufacturing environment
- Previous exposure and experience working with raw material market data, indices, and platforms
- Strong technical knowledge and understanding of automotive processes and components and supply chain management
- Experience of stakeholder management
- Experience in supplier/customer relationship management
- Understanding of cost drivers in a manufacturing environment and experience in leading cost reduction activities
- Results-orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines
- An organized approach with good business acumen
- Excellent analytical skills
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to work effectively with teams
- Good IT skills including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Good understanding of the need for diplomacy and confidentiality
- Good attention to detail
- Self-motivated with a can-do attitude
- Proactively contributes to the team
- Flexible approach to work
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Desirable
- Experience of using Microsoft Dynamics Navision (NAV)
- Experience of working within a Tier 1 Automotive environment
- MCIPS or studying towards CIPS qualification
Key Interfaces
- Internal: Supplier Quality, Engineering, PMO, Innovation
- External: Suppliers, Mercedes-Benz
Dimensions
- Budgets Managed: NO
- Direct Reports: N/A
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Skills
Contract Negotiation
Supply Chain Management
Commodity Strategy
Stakeholder Management
Supplier Relationship Management
Cost Reduction
Analytical Skills
Procurement Best Practice
Project Planning
Technical Knowledge of Automotive Processes
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
Business Acumen
Communication Skills
Industrialisation