Buyer - Interior Cockpit
Forseven
- Warwick
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Developing maintaining commodity strategies for a specific range of suppliers – Instrumental Panel, Centre Console, Door Casing, Ambient lighting & Vents.
- Supporting and managing the negotiation and completion of Production Supplier Contracts within the commodity area following alignment with the Cockpit Senior Buyer.
- Partnering with Engineering, Quality and other support functions to develop the supplier strategy and ensure we are using the leveraging with best technology, cost and quality.
- Conducting and evaluating assessments of potential Suppliers and work with the Engineering Partner on the creation of Sourcing recommendations.
- Developing and maintaining supplier relationships, including supplier evaluation and risk management
- Ensuring that the Supplier can fulfil Programme targets, including timing, cost, quality, technical attributes.
- Procurement/Purchasing experience within manufacturing/production-based environment (desirable)
- Exposure and experience in negotiation
- Strong influencing skills with experience of creating and maintaining networks across all levels of the business
- Understanding in developing structured commodity strategies
- Basic understanding of QAF analysis
- Eager to learn from Experienced Senior Buyers