The Purchasing team are recruiting for a Buyer on a full-time permanent basis.
What you could be doing:
* Reporting into the Purchasing Manager, you will lead on the delivery of projects and value generation within a particular indirect spend area.
* You will be providing commercial guidance and where necessary coaching and supporting your stakeholders on Purchasing process and policy.
* You'll take the lead on tender activity to leverage spend across our different brands and entities; including scope review, supplier due diligence, negotiation and recommendation for approval via presentation.
* You’ll proactively identify and implement areas of improvement, building strong stakeholder relationships while adding value to our core processes and ensure best practice is met at all times.
Skills and experience you can bring to the role:
* You'll need to have a keen eye for detail, excellent analytical skills and a strong commercial acumen.
* You'll need to be a self-starter, who can operate independently in accordance with the category strategies agreed with your line manager.
* You need to be a confident and effective communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
What can we offer you?
Along with a competitive salary, car schemes (including cars for family members), enhanced pension contributions, healthcare cash plan, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, 4 x life insurance & health & wellbeing support, we also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit you and your lifestyle.
Purchasing
Our centralised Purchasing team sits at the heart of our dynamic business, working with all brands, functions as well as with Volkswagen Financial Services and Volkswagen Group Ireland and our other sister companies within the UK to achieve quality and value through commercial excellence. The team is incredibly fast-paced and you'll be joining at an exciting time, with the team collaborating with their stakeholders on a wide range of transformational activity.
Think you're up to the challenge? We'd love to hear from you…
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