Senior Buyer - Plant Machinery & Equipment

Job Description: 

- Reporting under indirect purchasing team, responsible for procurement of plant machinery and equipment's.

- Develop and maintain knowledge of specific category, region or function including market dynamics and product life cycles.

- Lead category, region or function team(s) to determine the appropriate approach to market, the optimum commercial models and supplier relationships for a product/service or element of a category.

- Work closely with internal business partners to understand their requirements, mapping these to the company strategy and driving the "company" agenda.

- Develop procurement plans appropriate to specific product and services to deliver maximum commercial advantage to organization to include selection and application of appropriate procurement processes for a particular product and or service.

- Negotiate appropriate commercial and contractual arrangements with suppliers and for all products and services within role, including loading information onto appropriate systems.

- Manage the supply base to ensure delivery against contractual and commercial commitments and - In Contract- supplier performance and ensure business benefit is realised.

- To take personal ownership for utilisation of contracts, ensuring order channel strategy enables internal business partners to order items efficiently and contracts reflect customer requirements for their duration.

- May be responsible for managing the time phased delivery plan that brings together the - forecast- and - Inventory policies- to produce a commitment schedule to industry.

- Approx. 5 Yrs of total work experience with Large Automobile industry preferred out of which minimum 1.5-3 years of work experience in core procurement function.

- For full time MBAs, their MBA experience in terms of years would be counted as part of overall experience and for others total work experience post college would be counted as overall experience.

- Experience of working in Global roles and remote functioning desirable.