Buyer

Buyer - Motorsport

Location: Technical Centre Europe at Thetford.

Our client is looking for a Buyer focused on motorsport operations to be based at the Thetford site. The successful candidate will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating and procurement of goods and services to support MSVO motorsport activities to ensure that project requirements are met taking into account, price, quality, and delivery. These activities will be undertaken in conjunction with development and maintenance of a project Bills-of-Materials, tooling requirements and associated 3rd party services, including Full-Service Supply (FSS) engineering contracts.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Purchase goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets to support MSVO motorsport projects.
2. Create and maintain Bills-of-Materials deriving from the engineering BOM, particularly in relation to the execution of the purchasing requirements.
3. Work with the motorsport engineering team to develop purchasing strategies to support race car programmes.
4. Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant engineering and program departments.
5. Provide analysis on costs, new and existing, and review cost reduction activities.
6. Identify and evaluate supply chain risk whilst developing robust risk mitigation strategies where necessary.