The Company
Nigel Wright is proud to be the recruitment partner to AESC who are the world's leading battery technology company and lithium-ion battery manufacturer. Headquartered in Japan, and with manufacturing facilities in the U.K, U.S and Japan, we are currently looking for dynamic, forward-thinking individuals with innovative ideas to join them in their Sunderland plant to help deliver our current and future generation L-Ion Batteries into the rapidly expanding EV market place.
Their lithium-ion batteries can be found in more than 430,000 electric vehicles worldwide and have a superior safety record of zero-critical issues. We will continue to build upon these successes and expand into new markets and industries, producing innovative and competitive products and technologies that advance the goal of a zero-carbon emission future.
AESC have joined forces with Nissan and Sunderland City Council as part of the "Nissan EV36Zero' project that'll see not only a new, fully electric car pumped out of the Wearside factory, but a whole battery gigafactory and solar farms to help it run cleanly.
We are delighted to be partnering with AESC to recruit an Indirect Buyer into their growing Purchasing Team!
The Role
Reporting into Senior Management, the Indirect Buyer will manage Indirect spend for the UK and will be assigned a specific category portfolio.
Key responsibilities:
- Analysing Indirect spend - developing and implementing category strategy
- Market research, conducting full tenders and analysis, resourcing/retendering, contract negotiation and award
- Supplier performance management and review meetings – implementing corrective actions and ensuring adherence to KPIs/SLAs
- Representing Purchasing at key internal meetings with Engineering, Production and Maintenance
- Building cross functional collaborative relationships internally and externally
- Scoping RFPs with key stakeholders
- Reviewing opportunities to implement global contracts with other AESC plants
About You
You will have/be:
- Proven strategic procurement track record ideally across Indirects
- Previous negotiation experience essential - IT and Utilities category experience beneficial but not essential
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills – confident to challenge both internally and externally
- Strong communication skills, adept at building relationships quickly
- Resilient and adaptable to changing priorities in a fast-paced working environment
- Proactive, assertive, confident decision maker with a hands-on, can do attitude – able to hit the ground running
- Diligent, efficient, strong prioritisation skills – able to deliver to deadline
If you are an experienced Buyer with a strong background in end to end procurement - please get in contact for further details asap!