Graduate Buyer - £25,000 - West Midlands - Solihull - Attractive Salary plus Benefits (890150)

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Graduate Buyer - £25,000 - West Midlands
Solihull, West Midlands, England
Attractive Salary plus Benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a ‘New Product Buyer’ who will join the Purchasing team within a Global Electronics organisation.

In this role you will help deliver slip control electronics programmes within the Braking portfolio. New slip control programmes are due to launch from 2014 onwards with several major vehicle manufacturers. You will focus on delivering costed BOMs within target by developing effective sourcing strategies with the cross functional team. In addition there is an emphasis on driving safe supplier launches within the pre-defined programme milestones.

This entry level purchasing role will primarily support the Global Braking NPI but will also progressively take more responsibility in terms of owning specific programmes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide the interface between the supply base, Commodity Purchasing, SDE and the Programme Team.
• Manage the sourcing process culminating in a Sourcing Committee meeting to select suppliers.
• Ensure suppliers are initiated in a timely manner and tooling is released for industrialisation.
• Own the costed Bill of Materials. Track and understand the cost changes to the BOM.
• Drive the ongoing requirement to reduce material costs to a minimum and co-ordinate specific cost reduction initiatives with a focus on value engineering (VAVE).
• Ensure a flawless supplier launch by leading regular Safe Launch Reviews to track and co-ordinate the advanced quality process (APQP) culminating in an on-time production part approval.

 

Looking for strong soft skills, communication, confident, well organised must give examples in CV. 

The ideal candidate will be educated within engineering / business to a degree standard or equivalent. Have good organizational, motivation and communication skills, be flexible to adapt to ever changing design solutions. Have a strong commercial acumen with strong negotiation skills whilst demonstrating business / financial awareness.

Product knowledge of electronic and mechanical column drive components would be an advantage.

For further information please contact Steven Mann as soon as possible.

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 Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.