# Senior Buyer - Software & Customer Experience

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Procurement
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

The best software technology solutions in the best cars. Reporting to the Procurement Manager - Software & Customer Experience, you will be responsible for delivering the strategic direction and the commercial management of software, vehicle connectivity and associated service solutions within the team.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for end-to-end commodity management, from concept, development & sourcing, through to operational supply performance management, industry benchmarking and run-out/exit strategies

- Developing & executing global procurement strategies on complex requirements against business objectives and global growth plans

- Delivering and leading contract management via effective negotiation and actively undertaking supplier performance management

- Be responsible for commodity level total lifecycle cost ownership, risk management, developing cost and potential revenue opportunities and reporting new risks while creating mitigation ideas

- Maintaining & Improving supplier relationships with preferred suppliers while developing new relationships with suppliers that offer innovative solutions and advantageous commercial terms

- Supporting the Strategic Sourcing Manager in developing other team members and in developing the Operating Model

- Contribute to the development of the software procurement processes and implement the target operating model in alignment with other functions to achieve a dynamic & best-in-class function

- Delivering high-level presentations / business cases to the senior leadership team for critical decisions making

Requirements:

- Significant procurement experience preferably direct in a product development environment, ideally within automotive, aerospace or consumer electronics, or solid experience within an indirect IT procurement role

- Skilled in contract drafting and negotiation across different types of software supply agreements

- Experienced negotiator with a proven track record of end-to-end supply base management

- Confident and experienced in managing large software enterprises

- Solid knowledge of software technologies and supply base with a deep industry network

- Truly collaborative with strong influencing skills and experience of creating and maintaining networks across all levels of the business

- Understand and analyse key cost drivers in software development, licensing and maintenance and support with a proven record of optimising costs which deliver value to the business

- Has an ability to analyse business requirements and propose different commercial models that may provide revenue to the business

- Knowledge of risks and associated mitigations with software

- Has an innovative and curious mindset and is eager to understand different solutions and future trends

- Is unafraid to challenge the status quo and able to identify inefficiencies in processes and ways of working

Benefits:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- contract negotiation
- supply chain management
- software technologies
- cost optimisation

### Nice to have
- automotive
- aerospace
- consumer electronics
- IT procurement

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