Buyer (Assistant Procurement Category Manager)

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Buyer (Assistant Procurement Category Manager)

Sector: Supply Chain and Procurement | Role: Specialist | Contract Type: Permanent | Hours: Full Time

About The Role

The Procurement team is recruiting for a Buyer (Assistant Procurement Category Manager) on a full-time, permanent basis.

What you could be doing:

• Reporting to the Procurement Category Manager, leading project delivery and value generation within a specific indirect spend area.
• Providing commercial guidance, coaching, and supporting stakeholders on purchasing processes and policies.
• Leading tender activities to leverage spend across brands and entities, including scope review, supplier due diligence, negotiation, and approval recommendations via presentation.
• Proactively identifying and implementing improvements, building stakeholder relationships, and ensuring best practices are met.

Skills and experience you can bring to the role:

• Strong attention to detail, excellent analytical skills, and commercial acumen.
• Self-starter capable of operating independently according to category strategies.
• Confident and effective communicator with stakeholder management skills.

What can we offer you?

Competitive salary, car schemes (including cars for family members), enhanced pension contributions, healthcare cash plan, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, 4x life insurance, health & wellbeing support, and flexible benefits.

Procurement

Our centralised Procurement team collaborates with all brands and functions within Volkswagen Group to achieve quality and value through commercial excellence. The team is fast-paced and currently engaged in transformational activities.

Think you\’re up to the challenge? We\’d love to hear from you.

About Us

We\’re driven by difference. With six major brands, we create iconic vehicles, from luxury sports cars to family vans. We offer opportunities to explore ideas and tackle unique challenges.

Our goal is to deliver sustainable mobility for future generations, focusing on customer needs amidst industry transformations like digitalisation, electrification, and driverless mobility. We welcome diverse backgrounds and perspectives as vital to our ongoing success.

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