Indirect OSP Buyer

What You’ll Do

• The position focuses on purchases for indirect material and services from major suppliers & strategic commodities, managing the assigned indirect material supply base for South Molton to ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site.
• Dedicated to maintaining strategic relationships and creating new ones within the supply base.
• Maintains an essential balance between supplier quality, delivery expectations, and cost reduction metrics for all indirect material purchases.
• Champion the assigned supply chain driven metrics and tracking.
• Manages indirect material supplier relationships and opportunities for cost out and product/supplier improvement, while ensuring adequate service levels are met.
• Acts and applies skillful negotiations with internal and external suppliers; conducts problem resolution and settles disputes; develops win‑win solutions, and creates positive relations with tact and expert judgment.
• Identifies opportunities and ensures compliance to existing corporate indirect material supply contracts for the site, increases supply chain managed spend, cost reductions, and category leverage.
• Monitors new supplier add requests and consolidates the current or new diverse supply base spend into leveraged spend categories and contracts.
• Manages and maintains all assigned current supplier contacts, business relationships and commercial responsibilities for the site.
• Develops and helps facilitate cost out projects and commodity strategic actions, while assisting the corporate indirect material commodity teams implement projects for the site.
• Facilitates supplier questions on accounts payables and supports any necessary activity for disposition of invoice resolutions and/or payment issues.
• Facilitates cross‑functional collaboration with others to identify new areas of opportunity and achieve the greatest outcomes in support of strategic goals and initiatives.
• Develop applicable skills in processes, and gain experience in analyzing and interpreting total cost management drivers when developing cost outsourcing strategies.

2+ years’ experience working within a supply chain or material management function, desirably within Aerospace.

• Possesses expert knowledge and experience in successfully developing commodity strategies, deploying sourcing initiatives, and project managing cost‑out and supplier improvement programs.
• Shows track records for demonstrating leadership, and thinking and acting strategically. Demonstrated experience with commodity products and suppliers.
• Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations, SCM personnel, and external suppliers.
• Knowledgeable on ERP system operations, functions, and interfaces. Enterprise reporting systems and data mining.
• Skilled in Microsoft office applications, heavily influenced on Excel.
• Knowledgeable of commercial terms, practices, contract terms and conditions in the corporate setting.

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Other

• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

Bury, England, United Kingdom