# Senior Buyer - Interiors

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

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## Description

The McLaren Automotive Purchasing Department is an exciting yet demanding, fast-paced and commercially driven environment. The successful candidate will be working as part of a high-performing and agile team, with direct reporting into the Purchasing Manager. Cross-functional engagement with Engineering, Quality, Production, and Legal Teams is vital for successful delivery and performance.

Responsibilities:

- Life-cycle responsibility delivering high-quality, value-for-money components into McLaren.

- Accountability for cost and budget management for multi-million-pound direct-spend portfolios.

- New supplier identification and introduction into McLaren.

- Deliver commodity strategy and nomination approvals in line with business requirements aligned with the organisation's key stakeholders.

- Reference and awareness of technology and quality roadmaps within scope.

- Negotiate, execute, and monitor contractual agreements with suppliers.

- Deliver challenging annual cost-down targets through commercial and VA/VE methods.

- Work cross-functionally with all departments to drive core quality, cost principles, and processes.

- Develop strong, long-term relationships with Suppliers.

- Manage supplier performance on cost, quality, and on-time delivery.

Requirements:

- Degree preferred but not essential.

- Strong, clear, and confident communicator.

- Ability to work to deadlines and demands.

- Keen attention to accuracy and detail.

- Proven commercial background / strong negotiator.

- Previous manufacturing / automotive experience preferred but not essential.

- Proven supply chain experience in dealing with both high and low-value organisations.

- Enthusiastic and self-motivated to work autonomously.

- Experience in cost engineering, raw material, and tooling buying would be advantageous.

Benefits:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday

- Annual buy & sell up to five days

- 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 adaptable to lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

- Generous parental leave policies

- Range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

## Skills

### Required
- commercial background
- negotiation
- supply chain experience
- cost engineering
- raw material buying
- tooling buying

### Nice to have
- manufacturing experience
- automotive experience

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