BuyerPlanner – Heritage and TPC

Main Duties:

• Procure components and services for Heritage and TPC working closely with production and engineering to ensure sourcing achieves the optimum balance between lead time quality and price.
• Process purchase orders for Heritage and TPC goods and services ensuring heritage engineering specifications processes and engineering issues are fully communicated and the purchase requirement is appropriately authorised.
• Negotiate the commercial aspects of supplier quotes to secure favourable business terms maintaining accurate purchase system records for the Heritage and TPC commodities.
• Check supplier acknowledgements and challenge where required resolving non-conformances quickly to minimise delay to the Heritage manufacturing process and the TPC programme.
• Lead the tender process and create new contracts with clear deliverables terms and conditions driving suppliers and contractors to achieve the required outcomes.
• Conduct supplier audits across Heritage and TPC.
• Forecast Heritage and TPC demand translating the build test and event calendars into material requirements order dates and delivery timelines.
• Maintain the supply plan against those calendars managing delivery risk proactively holding stakeholders to account for plan dates and reporting status against relevant metrics.
• Engage and communicate with internal stakeholders across heritage creative and parts logistics to keep them informed of progress on outsourced Heritage and TPC parts.
• Act as the single point of contact for TPC integration with the wider Car Programme Management function maintaining clear segregation of out-of-cap Heritage and TPC activity in line with cost cap requirements.

Key Accountabilities:

Fulfil all organisational expectations including but not limited to the following:

• Understand and work in line with Williams Values & Behaviours encouraging others to do the same.
• Ensure understanding of and compliance with health and safety obligations.
• Maintain personal high standards of behaviour and conduct being a positive ambassador for the department.
• Ensure you adhere to brand rules and maintain high standards of department presentation.
• Work to quality standards and identify and contribute ways to continuously improve department and personal performance.
• Ensure understanding of cost cap rules and requirements.

Core Competencies:

• Procurement and supplier management sourcing negotiation and management of a large high-paced order book.
• Planning and scheduling translating build test and event demand into material requirements and delivery dates.
• Technical understanding a strong understanding of technical drawings and basic manufacturing techniques.
• Stakeholder management and communication.
• Continuous improvement.

Qualifications and Experience Level:

• A minimum of 2 years experience within a procurement role preferably motorsport.
• Demonstrable ability to manage an extremely large and high-paced order book.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes in a high-performance engineering setting.
• Experience of planning or scheduling material demand in a manufacturing environment.
• Competent Excel skills with working knowledge of Microsoft Project or an equivalent planning tool.

Additional Information :

Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time