Head - Purchasing - Volkswagen - Milton Keynes

Job description
Package details: £75k+ plus new car every 6 monts (unlimited value), bonus, contributory pension, healthcare, 27 days holiday plus 8 bank hoildays.

The Volkswagen Group are looking to recruit an experienced Head of Purchasing to lead the 6 strong purchasing team, providing structured advice to buyers in complex tender situations, confidently managing stakeholders both internally and at our global headquarters and reporting directly into the Finance Director. The successful candidate will also be the primary manager of the relationship with VW AG Group Purchasing.

Key Activities:
1. To create long-term sustainable (cost and performance) relationships with all of the Group’s key suppliers and uphold environmental & ethical standards and policies throughout the buying process
2. Ensure compliance with VWAG corporate procurement directives.
3. Deliver cost savings and efficiencies in line with the Group’s budgetary requirements and exploring commercial opportunities over and above budgeted savings
4. Take responsibility for the day to day management and development of the purchasing team
5. Provide clear day-to-day and strategic direction in relation to procurement for the Group’s UK business, challenge assumptions & processes where appropriate
6. Continue the procurement drive in marketing, review main agency relationships
7. Continue to focus on IS procurement and work with the IS management team to reduce the number of suppliers and ensure the arrangements have been competitively tendered
8. Further develop integration with Corporate Purchasing Department (BA) in Wolfsburg
9. Provide strategic leadership in relation to the further development of the K-SRM purchasing system. Take an active role in the global K-SRM user community to enable further development on both global and local levels
10. Lead local UK Purchasing cooperation between VW Group businesses in the UK
11. Support the business units in managing their supplier contracts with the appropriate supplier management tools
12. Manage purchasing related information systems within the business

Desired Skills and Experience
Skills

• Strategy development and implementation
• Commercial judgement – results focused decision making.
• Negotiation skills, ability to unlock challenging negotiation situations and realise commercial benefits
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – written and verbal (UK and Germany)
• Leadership – support and direction
• Process orientation
• Influencing – credible and confident
• Challenging authoritatively
• Relationship building

Experience

• Leadership experience in commercial role
• Indirect spend Purchasing experience
• Chairing senior committees

Qualifications

• Degree level education – commercial discipline
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply preferred
• German language preferred

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