What to Expect
We are recruiting for an Indirect Buyer to join our fantastic Indirect Procurement team in Woking. As the Indirect Buyer for Engineering Services, you will be responsible for the overall commercial management of your elements of the Engineering Services spend. You will be responsible for the sourcing strategy and the execution of strategic and complex Engineering Services sourcing projects through the full procurement lifecycle.
What You'll Do
- Identifying commercial opportunities and sourcing strategies within the Engineering Services expenditure category.
- Supporting the Category Manager in the delivery of agreed strategic objectives in line with the Product Development strategy and relevant Business Plans.
- To provide expertise in the Engineering Services sourcing category, including market knowledge and sourcing best practice.
- Helping define and deliver the Engineering Services category plans and identify appropriate sourcing strategies which generate benefits and achieve financial savings whilst mitigating risk for McLaren.
- Ensuring Engineering Services contracts including annual renewals are managed appropriately.
- Implementing appropriate contractual safeguards, SLAs and other operational measures to ensure vendors are incentivised to deliver a robust service.
What You'll Bring
- Well-developed negotiation skills in the Engineering Services category underpinned by detailed contract knowledge.
- Adept at handling multiple projects and contracts concurrently.
- Demonstrated ability to lead negotiations and support in the development of negotiation strategies for large and complex projects and contracts in Engineering Services.
- The ability to combine professional project management and procurement skills on large scale technology projects.
- Experience in drafting, reviewing and controlling contractual documentation, ideally waterfall and AGILE development projects.
- Excellent level of communication skills to support cross-departmental and stakeholder liaison.
What We'll Do for You
We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus award
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
- Life assurance benefit
- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- Generous parental leave policies
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
Who Are We?
No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.
It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.
McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.