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Role: Senior Project Buyer
Location: UK

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Buyer for our supply chain management team in the UK during a pivotal period of growth. In this role, you will be responsible for complete project procurement activities, implementing comprehensive sourcing and procurement strategies that optimize costs, enhance supplier quality, and improve reliability. You will report to the Head of Supply Chain, keeping a constant update on the project procurement plan, project procurement status report, vendor management and relevant risk assessments. Your role will be crucial through the project execution, ensuring effective management of supplier-related risks and opportunities.

What will you do?

• Sourcing Strategy – Implement effective sourcing strategies in line with business strategy to ensure that suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet current and future business requirements.
• Supplier Relations – Manages relationships with suppliers (including negotiations, frame agreements and purchase orders) in partnership with the Head of Supply Chain. Conduct direct negotiations with the vendors to meet the project target prices.
• Procedures – Applies company procurement procedures and plans and ensures appropriate implementation and compliance by the project team
• Monitoring – Monitors the project procurement status and updates Head of Supply Chain management of any issues. Pro-actively works to resolve issues related to procurement cost, quality and delivery.
• Process Excellence – Collaborates with project team to identify new suppliers and ensures vendors prequalification as per company standards
• Documentation – Documents general and special conditions for use on all project purchase documents, project procurement procedures, and project procurement plans and ensures compliance
• Compliance – Governs Linxon Global SCM standards on health and safety, sustainability, business ethics, environmental regulations and Level of Authority. Implements and maintains the related Global SCM instructions and procedures.

Experience Required

• Solid experience in Power Sector – Transmission & Distribution business.
• Experience in project procurement negotiations for large orders (> 50 MUSD).
• Experience handling Category Management and proficient in timely finalizing Main orders for Substation Main Equipment.
• Strong technical knowledge in power transmission and distribution technologies, proposing optimized technical solutions in line with cost saving strategy.
• Analytical leadership with an independent and solution-oriented working style, as well as strong communicative and collaborative skills.
• Extensive experience in commercial negotiations.
• Supporting the effective utilisation of the Supply chain resources based in the Global Engineering & Technology Services (GETS) office in India.

Competencies / Skills Required

• Preferred: Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Professional presentation skills.
• Demonstrate high level of people development and leadership skill.

What We Offer

• Great salary structure
• Hybrid work model
• Industry leading bonus and pension scheme
• Car allowance

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity. We combine Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge and Atkins Realis’s project management expertise to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon.

Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects. As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

To know more about Linxon please click on the link below.

Building the infrastructure to power the world - we are Linxon!

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Purchasing and Supply Chain

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