Senior Buyer in UK

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Buyer to join our team. As a key member of a multi-discipline project team, you will be responsible for defining Supply Chain solutions, selecting strategic suppliers, and developing and deploying a complex category strategy. Your focus will be on driving cost, quality and delivery improvements while protecting the program requirements.

Your role will involve providing the interface between the Supply Chain and Program functions to define program needs and deliver a strategy capable of delivering those needs. You will work with the project team and strategic suppliers to define the required specifications and drive improvements through design changes. You will champion the category strategy through all program supply chains, while ensuring that company IP is protected through NDAs and secure contracts.

This is an exciting opportunity for a results-driven professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment. Are you up for the challenge? Apply now!

To be successful you'll need:

• Strong Supply Chain Management background
• Excellent contractual expertise
• Defining and developing supply chain strategies
• Complex bid management and negotiation in a complex commercial environment
• Defining and developing material or service specifications / statements of work
• Demonstrable success in cost reduction initiatives
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in heavy engineering, mechanical, construction or related industries
• Minimum 3 years’ experience at a contract management level
• Personally motivated, with a task-oriented approach
• Strong and adaptable influencing skills
• Financially astute, perceptive and intuitive, with strong commercial judgment
• Highly credible, can talk with authority
• Able to energise and drive a high-performing, matrixed team
• Discretion to handle confidential information

Reaction Engines is committed to fairness and inclusivity. Research tells us that applicants tend to only apply when they feel they meet 100% of the criteria. If you believe you have what it takes and this role excites you, but you don’t align perfectly with the criteria listed, we encourage you to still apply. We’d love to have a discussion!

What we offer you

We have some fantastic benefits that sit alongside a great salary:

• Dynamic Hybrid Working (where your time is split between working from home and in the office)
• 9 day Fortnight work pattern (every other Friday off)
• Generous holiday entitlement (196 hours a year, increasing to 210 hours after 2 years service - plus bank holidays, plus every other Friday off! ) - full time allowance
• Company Share Option Plan
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• Life assurance (3x annual salary)
• Ongoing Personal & Professional development opportunities
• Annual Professional Membership
• Subsidised childcare at Culham Nursery
• Family friendly policies
• Long Service Awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employer matching pension up to 5%
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Employee recognition (STAR Awards)
• Health and wellbeing discounts & wellbeing challenges via our EAP

Salary: £45,000 - £52,000

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