Senior Buyer - 21535 - Warwick - £20.16/hr Ltd Co. rate (GWOC-105323)

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Senior Buyer - 21535
Warwick, Warwickshire, England
£20.16/hr Ltd Co. rate

Our automotive client is a market leader in luxury and high volume off-road vehicles, designing and manufacturing in the Midlands.

We are recruiting for a Senior Buyer on a 12-month contract based in Warwick.

As Senior Buyer, you will have the ability to assist UK buyers to assess, validate and develop new and incumbent suppliers in BRICE to meet our clients standards. In additional, you will have the:
* Ability to analyse the total business case for sourcing in BRICE for export business.
* On-going development of BRICE based supplier relationships both before and after sourcing nomination

Skills Required:
1)Excellent adminstration and organisational skills
2)Research skills and local market knowledge is required.
3)Good overall Commercial business acumen and negotiation experience is required.
4) Ability to analyse total business case for sourcing, on a total cost basis incl. R and D, tooling, investment and transportation costs.
5) Strong computer skills and Project management skills are essential.
6) Applicants must be self motivated and able to work unsupervised.

Applicants must have experience of:
* Locating and recommendation of new suppliers based on Automotive Industry key standards.
* Liaise with UK Brice team and provide research on commodities and opportunities where exporting to UK for JLR manufacturing are viable.
* Issue RFQ (Request for Quotation) packages to selected suppliers and ensure timely response from suppliers.
* Initial review of robustness of quote from suppliers, review and assist in negotiation of best-in-class piece price and vendor tooling costs. Costs will then be sent back to the UK for further analysis.
* Support RFQ cost reviews with UK teams.
* Lead Market Intelligence in region and provide advice on key areas such as local labour rates, tax exemptions, government policy, duty rates and automotive regulations
- Information to be fed back to UK team.
* Support STA function (Supplier Technical Assistance) in areas including supplier site evaluation, feed information back to UK STA manager

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Contracts are those of an Employment Business.