Senior Sub-Contract Buyer - #2160009

Job Title: Senior Sub-Contract Buyer

Location: Edinburgh

Contract Duration: 3-6 months (very likely to extend)

Working pattern: 4 days on site in Edinburgh, 1 day remote.

Inside IR35.

The role of a Senior Sub-Contract Buyer offers a wide variety of experiences and is both exciting and challenging in its nature. This role in particular represents a unique opportunity to contribute to the Laser and EO development projects.

This role will involve actively working in a Matrix organisation structure supporting a variety of complex assignments for Development Integrated Project Teams (IPT's) in the Laser and EO sector. The focus for this role will be the management of complex sub-contract commitments for requirements that require both tactical and strategic thinking.

The IPTs demand associated with Development continues to grow within the Laser & EO Sector and requires any individual successfully appointed able to translate complex, early concept customer requirements and ensure that these are carefully flowed down to subcontractors ensuring back-to-back campaigns and project execution. The ability to build, foster and create value with strategic partners and suppliers is essential.

What you'll bring

• Lead the delivery of sub-contract activities and other procurement related services which may be required by the business
• Lead relationships with suppliers, holding reviews, ensuring performance management, risks and impacts.
• Negotiate complex agreements and risk/reward mechanisms for business case models
• Translate customer/project requirements into commercial documents, particularly pertaining to the design, development and production of bespoke complex electronic systems and sub-systems
• Understand mechanisms of mitigating risk associated with entering into commercial agreements
• Develop and negotiate robust contracts for services, intangible and tangible deliverables
• Working in collaboration with cross functional stakeholders to ensure the flowdown of appropriate terms and conditions from customer contracts to enable compliance with contractual obligations and mitigate commercial/contractual risks
• Promotes customer intimacy in both internal and external relationships
• Focal point for project and suppliers regarding contract and supply base matters
• Drives and leads strategies to influence business decisions throughout the project life cycle
• Identify solutions for complex areas of potential risk/opportunity eg sub-contract risk, IPR, liability and exchange rate exposure etc. and deliver solutions/mitigations

You really must have:

• Requires technical training to degree standard, professional qualification and/or significant domain experience (studying towards or achievement of MCIPS is preferred)
• Demonstrated collaboration, communication, planning, problem solving, influencing, decision making and continuous improvement skills
• A good working knowledge and understanding of Procurement within the Defence/Aerospace industry (or a similar sector) and ability to apply them with minimal supervision and direction