Building and Construction Buyer

As the Building and Construction Buyer, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry. You will be involved in:

• Implementing the procurement strategy defined by the Commodity Procurement Management and the Projects Multi-Functional-Teams (MFT) within the scope of activity
• Manage procurement projects and call for tenders with multi-divisional scope within the scope of the Building & Construction Team and international scope on demand
• Develop and maintain an efficient supply chain capable to deliver goods/services
• Ensure that deliverables are in line with the contractual terms (cost, time, quality)
• Secure long-term alignment of the preferred supplier base with the long-term trans-divisional strategic needs
• Ensure continuous commercial relationship with suppliers in order to secure work with best-in-class suppliers and protect from contractual risks
• Conduct the procurement process in order to fulfil business needs and provide the internal customers with valued services in compliance with the General Procurement procedures and guidelines
• Deliver on initiatives contributing to Savings Programmes using the levers of requirements harmonisation/standardisation, challenge of the specifications, volume aggregation, and control of the demand
• Provide strategically relevant input to support the strategy development
  
  Do you have experience dealing with internal customers, suppliers, and budgets?
Do you have experience setting up procurement strategies within the building and construction environment? Do you want to work with an industry-leading company?,
• Experience within procurement, operations, or facility management
• Experience in setting up a procurement strategies in the area of responsibility (Building & Construction category)
• Experience in Building project management
• People Management skills to lead and motivate the teams
• Advanced Project Management skills to motivate cross-functional project teams in situations of often conflicting objectives (internal customer, supplier, budget)
• Knowledge about procurement building contracts
• Strong business analytical skills (e.g. business case studies, financial KPI)