Buyer

Role: Buyer

Location: Gloucester

Duration: 3 months

Rate: 53/hour

Inside IR35: Umbrella

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define supplier strategy including management and optimization of supplier panels. This role requires experience gained within sourcing and commodity management.
• Experience gained with engineering manufacturing is essential.
• Lead negotiations and allocate needs to specific suppliers. Negotiate terms and conditions and transmit information to Procurement.
• Manage claims. Includes commercial sourcing management such as data analysis, negotiations support, etc. This may also include purchasing activities.
• Broadening knowledge of theories, practices and procedures in own discipline to execute functional policy/strategy; still developing functional knowledge and skills.
• Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• Resolves issues in situations that require good knowledge and judgment within established procedures.
• Consults more senior team members for issues outside of defined policy/parameters.
• A job at this level requires good interpersonal skills.
• For customer facing roles, develops strong customer relationships and serves as the interface between customer and GE.
• Ability to explain and convey technical information to others.

Required Qualifications

• This role requires experience gained within sourcing and commodity management.
• Experience gained with engineering manufacturing is essential.
• Knowledge level is comparable to a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent workplace experience.