Were supporting our client, a leading global automotive manufacturer based in Banbury, who are looking for a Commodity Buyer to join their growing team. The successful Commodity Buyer will have experience in an engineering/ manufacturing purchasing environment.
Responsibilities for Commodity Buyer:
*Undertake supplier selection and strategy to meet business and project requirements as requested.
*Identify business goals for cost improvement and continually strive to achieve or better that goal in a sustainable and measurable fashion.
*Manage selected customer nominated suppliers.
*Set and communicate supplier performance targets.
*Establish production supply agreements to be best in class in commercial terms.
*Develop and maintain commodity strategies for given commodities relevant to business goals.
*Fully support the engineering change management of supplied components and materials.
*Actively participate in continuous improvement processes supplier quality, cost, innovation, delivery and management.
*Where necessary take on the closure of quality issues with suppliers, supporting the relevant quality engineer.
*Maintenance of Purchasing database, s...