Buyer

The Opportunity – Buyer (12-Month Fixed Term Contract)

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Overview of the role

As a member of the fast-paced and highly motivated JCB Service operational purchasing team, you will be responsible for an exciting and varied portfolio of suppliers, covering several key commodity areas, ensuring a correct purchasing strategy is in place to efficiently support JCB’s dealers & customers globally.

What does this role involve day to day?

• You will be responsible to ensure that parts are sourced considering the total cost of ownership, where you will be challenging suppliers over several fundamental criteria such as: Lead-Times, Cost, Quality, MOQ’s and their Reliability. Working with our Supply Chain team to maintain efficient levels of stock during this challenging time. 

• You will be continuously searching for cost down initiatives such as re-sourcing, localisation, rationalisation and supplier negotiations in order to remain competitive and to best support the global customer base.

• You will be supported to investigate opportunities by the wider JCB community as each department collaborates to achieve the same goal. You will work closely with several cross-functional teams, including the Inventory Team, Customer Service, Technical Service, and Global Warehouse Functions.

• The role has several key work-streams, and a large portion of the role operates on SAP, where having the ability to learn new systems quickly is vital, and experience of previously using the system is preferable.

This will be suited to you if

• You are a experienced purchasing professional or possess supply chain experience

• You have experience in supplier negotiation & Supply-chain knowledge

• You have experience of leading projects 

• You have experience of working in cross functional teams 

What happens next?

Ordinarily, our resourcing team reviews and shortlists CVs. If shortlisted, you’ll speak to one of our recruiters to discuss the role further. Our interview process usually consists of an initial team’s interview followed by an in-person interview. We’ll keep in touch throughout the process but if you have any questions, please get in touch at recruitment@jcb.com 

 What’s in it for you?

This is your chance to join a company that values expertise not only in rewards but also in real employee care. At JCB you don’t just get a competitive salary, 33 days’ holiday and access to our company pension—you can also use our onsite gym, in-house doctor, dentist and visiting optician. We have an ULEV car scheme available for our employees too. Then there’s the JCB Rewards Hub, which gives you discounts with high street retailers. Feel like biking to work? There’s our Cycle to Work Scheme.

We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

We’re committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair and inclusive. If you face any accessibility challenges with your online application and require additional support, you have the option of speaking to a member of our recruitment team who can support you to complete an application in an alternative format. If you would benefit from this support, please email recruitment@jcb.com, and a member of the team will be in touch.

Recruitment Agencies: JCB does not accept any speculative approaches to present candidates for advertised vacancies.