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As the Buyer you will have responsibility for working within the Category Strategies for your area of responsibility, to influence early Vehicle Line Delivery (VLD) & Engineering thinking on sourcing and technology, and to deliver all Procurement activities for your commodities throughout the programme delivery, up to and including job one plus 90 days
- Working closely with the Commodity Procurement team to understand the Category Strategies for their commodity area, including ensuring they are up to date, relevant for the new programme's requirements, and available on time.
- Running the RFQ process in line with the Category Strategies, whilst ensuring competitive tension is maintained, to deliver the best possible commercial and technology result for the business, according to the programme's timing requirements.
- Analysing and interrogating of the supplier's RFQ responses to deliver on time, comprehensive, like for like, quotations and to deliver the best possible total cost picture for sharing with the Commodity Procurement team for final negotiation and contracting.
- Building strong relationships with their opposite numbers(s) within the VLD and Engineering to ensure robust cross functional cooperation between Programme Procurement and the VLD & Engineering teams, to deliver 'one voice' to the companies supplier base, in turn delivering the best cost and technology solutions for the new programmes.
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