REQ ID: 126615
JOB TITLE: Senior Buyer
LOCATION: Budapest

Reimagine the future of modern luxury at JLR Hungary. Here you'll find roles from technical to supplychain. You'll collaborate with global teams across multiple sites and work with cutting-edgeinnovations to deliver extraordinary experiences. Your work will directly shape the next generation ofour iconic brands. Come, create an exceptional future.

Your main focus and priority will be ensuring supplier performance to meet JLR Quality, Cost, Delivery, Innovation and Sustainability (QCDIS) requirements. You will also be responsible for all post sourcing commercial contract and change management activities for designated commodities and suppliers.

WHAT TO EXPECT

In this role, no two tasks are the same. With lots of projects and relationships to build with peopleacross the business and beyond, it’s a challenge that will help your career grow within an iconicorganisation. Here’s what to expect:

Cost Management:  

• Ensuring effective cost management of particular commodities and suppliers, which will involve launching new products at their target cost as well as achieving year on year cost reduction on current spend to deliver against savings targets
• Responsibility for resolution of in-contract commercial issues including invoices relating to price queries, annual cost reduction, tooling costs, design changes and all liability claims 
• Lead negotiations with external suppliers for both current and future products

Supplier Relationship Management:

• Lead Supplier Business Reviews to develop supplier relationships and ensure performance
• Support stakeholder engagement and internal relationship management, and act as the primary interface with Product Engineering for designated commodities/parts, to ensure cross-functional alignment on quality, cost, delivery, innovation and sustainability requirements
• Be the Global Strategy Leader, to develop the supplier relationships globally for your designated commodities 
• You will be responsible for commercial contract validation activities on behalf of JLR which includes but is not limited to:

-Validating activities of core commercial/contractual elements and costs

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Along with your ambition to achieve the exceptional, there are several skills that you’ll need to have tohelp you succeed here, including:

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience
• 3–5-year experience in relevant roles and responsibilities 
• Delivering complex supply chain solutions in a fast paced, high pressured manufacturing environment
• The ability to work independently, results driven, demonstrating tenacity, drive and perseverance with the ability to deliver operational plans in a complex, highly demanding environment.
• Implementing and delivering purchasing strategies with the focus on total value chain delivery
• Identify opportunities for creating value in a commodity or commodities
• A resilient and enthusiastic individual who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs
• Maintaining compliance with standard policies and procedures

THE BENEFITS

This role is rewarding in more ways than one. On top of our core offering, you’ll do extraordinary workwith amazing people. In addition, you can expect the following benefits:

• Join us for the next level of your career and help developing solutions that shape the future of cars
• Be part of an international, inclusive and open-minded team where you have actual influence on the processes
• See the product you’re working on come to life from testing all the way to production
• Work flexibly with high percentage of home office or from our award-winning office
• Competitive salary and performance related bonus scheme
• Health and life insurance and cafeteria package
• Various company programs such as charity events or our regular board game club

Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary,non-contractual arrangement providing employees more choice and flexibility around how, when andwhere they work. Some roles require more on-site work, but details of this can be discussed with thehiring manager during the interview stage.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidatesmay require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with yourrecruiter so we can accommodate your needs.

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you’re unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role– but you're interested in where it could take you – we still encourage you to apply. We believe inpeople's ability to grow and develop within their role – it’s what makes living the exceptional with soulpossible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.