The Senior Buyer will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and purchasing materials, equipment, and services required by the company. They will also be responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and ensuring timely delivery of goods and services. The Senior Buyer will collaborate with other departments to support their needs and objectives.

• Gathers and analyses benchmarks for pricing and contract terms.

• Develops solicitation specifications based on internal and external sources of information.

• Analyses proposed pricing against historical costs, other contracts, and industry-recognized indexes.

• Possesses and demonstrates strong knowledge of policies, procedures and execution strategy

• Ensure supply and scheduling of assigned suppliers / commodities.

• Reduce supply risk

• Manage electrical and mechanical product and the associated supplier base.

• Develop and implement competitive sourcing strategies for the commodity spend.

• Project management – NPI – Support a number of projects simultaneously and promote early supplier engagement for NPD

• Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above

• Understand and live by the companies ethics and business conduct policies

• Protect the commercial position of the organization at all times.

• Works closely with other procurement team members in support of procurement and contract activities.

• Leads and develops strategy for formal supplier negotiations and supports other procurement staff with similar activities.

• Monitors vendor commodity market and industry developments to identify appropriate opportunities to maximize cost savings and quality of procured goods or services.

• Conducts regular business reviews with vendor executives to review and discuss vendor performance, contract activities and negotiate contract enhancements and price decreases.

• Conducts ongoing vendor and contract management to ensure vendor compliance with contractual obligations.

• Builds and manages business relationships with internal and external vendors to facilitate effective contract management and sourcing outcomes.