Senior Sub-Contract Buyer

City of Edinburgh Source: WhatJobs
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Senor Subcontract Buyer

Location: Edinburgh

Contract: 6-Months Pay: Up toGBP45p/h Inside IR35 (DOE)

Responsibilities

  • Lead the delivery of sub-contract activities and other procurement-related services which may be required by the business
  • Lead relationships with suppliers, holding reviews, ensuring performance management, risks and impacts.
  • Negotiate complex agreements and risk/reward mechanisms for business case models
  • Translate customer/project requirements into commercial documents, particularly pertaining to the design, development and production of bespoke complex electronic systems and sub-systems
  • Understand mechanisms of mitigating risk associated with entering into commercial agreements
  • Develop and negotiate robust contracts for services, intangible and tangible deliverables
  • Working in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the flowdown of appropriate terms and conditions from customer contracts to enable compliance with contractual obligations and mitigate commercial/contractual risks
  • Focal point for project and suppliers regarding contract and supply base matters
  • Drives and leads strategies to influence business decisions throughout the project life cycle
  • Identify solutions for complex areas of potential risk /opportunity e.g. sub-contract risk, IPR, liability and exchange rate exposure etc. and deliver solutions/mitigations

Experience required

  • A good working knowledge of SAP
  • Requires technical training to degree standard, professional qualification and/or significant domain experience (studying towards or achievement of MCIPS is preferred)
  • Demonstrated collaboration, communication, planning, problem solving, influencing, decision making and continuous improvement skills
  • A good working knowledge and understanding of Procurement within the Defence/Aerospace industry (or a similar sector)

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