Commodity Buyer in Telford

What we offer: At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Group Summary: Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.

Job Responsibilities: The Commodity Buyer will be responsible and accountable for the monitoring and management of the supplier base's performance, as defined by the category strategy for both Direct and Indirect commodities. Objectives for this role will include:

• Monitoring and reporting the performance of the suppliers against the Group and Plant defined strategies.
• Training of the supply base in key processes and policies.
• Supporting the delivery of Group and Plant strategies through the rigorous post-award management of contract and supplier performance.
• Onboarding new suppliers.
• RFQ generation, management, analytics culminating in submission of a Purchasing Recommendation for approval.

Key Accountabilities:

• Monitors all Procurement strategies performances to ensure that the maximised value is achieved for the business.
• Builds in-depth knowledge of the supply market within their category sector.
• Monitors and supports the execution of all strategies, including supporting negotiation with suppliers, evaluating ongoing contract and supplier performance and measuring contract compliance.
• Support and implementation of sourcing of group-wide deals for the overall category strategy, including supporting any other category sourcing strategies.
• Monitor and report the results from strategies to incentivise and engage strategic suppliers and then measure and incentivise their performance.
• Monitor supplier and customer governance, fed by relevant data and attended by empowered representatives of all organisations.
• Monitor and support the implementation, performance and compliance to group-wide deals in support of the category strategy.
• Be a high performing category team member who is aligned to category strategy and value delivery.
• Deliver and exceed targets set through clear objectives that link to the overall business and functional strategy.

Must adhere to responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 including; co-operation with the line supervision and managers, taking reasonable care of oneself and others, not tampering with any systems which exist for the purpose of effective risk control and participation in our management system including adherence to "safe systems of work" and instructions and reporting any issues/abnormalities/hazards which are, or may become a danger to our teams. Any other duties as reasonably requested by the employer.

Key Experiences and Qualifications:

• Automotive sector experience with a Purchasing and Programme Management/Project bias.
• Experience in press tooling and assembly purchases.
• Experience with working with suppliers in China.
• Understanding of QAF's and data harvesting/analysis.
• MCIP's qualified or working towards MCIP's.
• Any engineering qualifications.

Desirable Skills and Experience Required:

• Prolific in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Worked in an OEM or large tier 1 supplier previously.
• Commercially astute.

Personal Attributes:

• Leadership – strong, consistent, clear, inspire others, integrity, ability to drive through change.
• Empowering Others – Delegation of trust, correct controls, feedback, communicate accountability and responsibility.
• Action orientated – Able to deal with problems in appropriate time frames.
• Driven by results – Decisive, confident addressing problems and opportunities, challenging activities to improve performance, demonstrate willingness to challenge accepted methods and standards.
• Effective communication – Clear concise written and spoken, ability at all levels, customer, supplier and internal.
• Strategic agility – recognition of a changing need and speed of response, rapid reaction to challenges.
• High Standards – demonstrating a motivation to improve standards and thereby making a real difference, challenging inadequate solutions.
• Integrity and trust – demonstrating a sense of commitment to openness, honesty, loyalty and high standards in undertaking the role.
• People management – demonstrating commitment to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders.

At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, colour, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.

AI-Assisted Screening Disclosure: As part of our commitment to a fair, consistent, and efficient recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications submitted through our Workday system. These tools help identify qualifications and experience that align with the role requirements. Please note that AI is used solely to support our recruiters. Final decisions are always made by the hiring manager and the hiring team. Importantly, no applicant data is shared externally through these AI tools. All information remains securely within our systems and is handled in accordance with our privacy and data protection policies.

Under conditions defined by applicable law, you may have the right to request an explanation of how AI is used to support decision-making. If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact our Talent Attraction team.

Worker Type: Regular / Permanent

Group: Cosma International