Who will you be working with?
We are seeking an experienced Lead Buyer to join our team at the LH Group (a Division of Wabtec UK Ltd) based in Burton on Trent we support our customers through maintenance and operation optimisation with customised solutions for spare parts, repair, and overhaul activities on existing trains.
Role: Lead Buyer
Salary: £Competitive
Location: Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, (DE13 8EN) – (Onsite)
Hours: Monday to Thursday 07:30 to 16:00pm and Friday 07:30am to 12:30pm, 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time
How will you make a difference?
To ensure supplier quality, cost control, and project needs from tender to serial production, it is essential to enhance project contract margins through effective sourcing, supplier management, and risk mitigation. Leading cost-reduction efforts across all commodities and improving purchasing and supply chain processes for better sourcing efficiency.
What will your typical day look like?
* To manage a portfolio of suppliers with the aim of ensuring QCD performance
* Build, follow-up and monitor sourcing action plans.
* To protect the supply chain by ensuring that suppliers have the capacity to supply quality product within acceptable lead times.
* Take the lead in Supplier Reduction Roadmap
* Set up Supply Frame Agreements with strategic suppliers for production parts.
* Set up item supplier relationships for non-strategic items, i.e. unpredictable, irregular items.
* Identify suppliers to implement Consignment Stock, Kanban's and VSM’s based on their specific commodities.
* Manage external suppliers in the Vendor List and identify potential new suppliers.
* Volume analysis on consumed stock to ensure price breaks are set in appropriate places.
* Lead key Strategic Supplier Review meetings and cost reduction teams.
* Visit supplier premises as required to ensure goals and objectives are achieved.
* Take the lead in ensuring supplier selection is robust and justified.
* Take part in contract reviews for Overhaul Project Work.
* Liaise with other departments and colleagues across the UK to meet individual and team objectives.
What do we want to know about you?
* CIPS qualified or equivalent Business Degree
* A background in purchasing, procurement, or supplier management.
* A proven track record of successfully partnering with various suppliers.
* Can you demonstrate the ability to utilise creative and effective procurement strategies to acquire services while maintaining supplier relationships?
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
If you don’t have all the above criteria don’t worry, we would still like to hear from you as we live our values and always put people first and strive to expand what is possible.
About Wabtec:
Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at:
It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make your and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology, and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
Legal authorization to work in UK is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
*Please note that we do not accept agency candidate submissions without a formalised agreement with Wabtec Talent Acquisition. If you are an agency/third party Recruiter and have not been engaged by Wabtec for this search, we do not owe you a fee if you submit a candidate to the applicant tracking system that is ultimately hired.
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