Buyer (Indirect Purchasing)
- Recruiter
- Arriva Train Care
- Location
- Crewe
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 30 Mar 2017
- Closes
- 27 Apr 2017
- Sectors
- Procurement
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Buyer (Indirect Purchasing) – Crewe
£ negotiable based on knowledge and experience + excellent benefits
Arriva TrainCare are currently seeking a Buyer (Indirect Purchasing) to join our Purchasing team based at our headquarters in Crewe. We are a successful, rapidly evolving organisation, going through a massive transformation at real pace, with a strong order book for 2017 and beyond.
Buyer (Indirect Purchasing) role and purpose:
You will be primarily responsible for reviewing indirect spend categories within the business and ensuring that the company is achieving best value for the goods and services it procures within these areas.
You will work directly with the supply chain in requesting and negotiating quotation and tenders, as well as managing all aspects of supplier liaison to maintain smooth delivery of new and existing contracts and supply arrangements.
You will work with internal stakeholders to develop further relationships between the Purchasing department and other internal business areas to help achieve best value purchasing, by jointly identifying and agreeing forward requirements, specifications and demand profiles.
Essential experience needed to become our Buyer (Indirect Purchasing):
- A good standard of education, ideally a degree / professional qualification (e.g. CIPS) in a relevant subject area
- A full and valid driving licence is essential
- Previous purchasing / buying experience (min. 2+ years)
- Purchasing experience within an Engineering environment would be advantageous
- Able to communicate effectively both written and verbally to transfer knowledge and skills and influence at all levels.
- Able to manage numerous high profile projects simultaneously.
A “self-starter” who is comfortable working on own initiative. This role is an excellent opportunity for someone wanting to develop and enhance existing skills within the Purchasing and Supply Chain business sector, along with the opportunity to develop new skills associated with managing the indirect spend portfolio.
Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hrs per week
Our behaviours:
One Arriva: We work as one team – ‘together we are Arriva’
Great customer experience: We keep our customers happy every day.
Doing the right thing: We look after our customers, colleagues and the environment, and always put safety first.
Thinking beyond: We are curious and inspired to think beyond today for an even bigger and better Arriva tomorrow.
Our company:
Arriva TrainCare provides Light and Heavy Train Maintenance services to the railway industry from its five strategically located maintenance depots. We are part of Arriva, part of the Deutsche Bahn group, one of the largest transport services organisations in Europe, employing over 55,900 people and delivering more than 1.5 billion passenger journeys across 15 European countries every year.
To apply for the Buyer (Indirect Purchasing) position, please click on ‘Apply’ to submit your CV and covering letter.
We do our very best to respond to all applications that we receive, however, if you have not received a response from Arriva Train Care after 8 weeks, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
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Data Protection Act 1998
The Company needs to collect and use certain types of information about employees, in order to operate its business and to fulfil its legal obligations under the Data Protection Act.
The Company will hold such information on file for as long as it considers necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it has been obtained and to process (including disposing and destroying) it in accordance with the Data Protection Principles and the other requirements of the Act and any other procedures laid down by the Company for this purpose from time to time.
The Company will undertake all reasonable precautions at all times to ensure that the details recorded are correct and will guard information against any unauthorised access and use.