Indirect OSP Buyer

Eaton; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A global electrical management company is seeking a Supply Chain Specialist focused on managing supplier relationships for indirect materials. The ideal candidate will have over 2 years of experience, excellent negotiation skills, and the ability to manage cost reduction initiatives effectively. This entry-level full-time role offers an opportunity to thrive in a collaborative environment and contribute to strategic supply chain goals.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Manage indirect material supplier relationships and opportunities.
• Conduct negotiations and resolve disputes with suppliers.
• Monitor compliance to indirect material supply contracts.
• Facilitate supplier questions on accounts payable.

Skills

Supplier relationship management

Negotiation skills

Cost reduction strategies

Project management

Communication skills

ERP system knowledge

Microsoft Excel

Job description

What You’ll Do

The position focuses on purchases for indirect material and services from major suppliers & strategic commodities. The position manages the assigned indirect material supply base for South Molton to ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site. Must be 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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

• 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.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing