Strategic Buyer

**Job Description**:
**Strategic Buyer (f/m/d)**

**Full time**

**Dahlewitz / Hybrid**

**Why Rolls-Royce?**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a **Strategic Buyer (f/m/d) **to join Rolls-Royce Deutschland in **Dahlewitz near Berlin.**

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

As a Strategic Buyer for Rolls-Royce, you’ll play an integral role in developing and implementing the purchasing strategy for the Nacelle commodity.

This is an exciting opportunity, as you’ll interface with a complex supply chain and drive to improve cost, negotiate complex commercial agreements and manage life of programme contracts.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are, so we encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work.

**What you will be doing**

With this exciting opportunity you will get a chance to:

- be at the forefront of commercial negotiations to achieve the best overall value for Rolls-Royce and build relationships with suppliers,
- establish the commercial framework in which the suppliers shall operate, ensuring cost competitiveness and value improvement is achieved,
- take a significant role in crafting the Nacelle commodity strategy and creating and/or deploying cost models,
- manage major contractual issues and ensure efficient and effective resolution,
- collaborate with other areas of business to ensure purchasing agreements are placed and executed on time,
- be responsible for senior relationship management and business development of suppliers within the Nacelle commodity area and related business project,
- be accountable for ensuring adherence to functional processes and procedures and ongoing development/continuous improvement activities,
- ensure own compliance to the company's code of ethics.

**Who we are looking for**

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to:

- have a Business degree or equivalent qualification or significant commercial experience,
- demonstrate a proven track record of delivering results,
- possess a global outlook and exposure to diverse challenges, cultures, and ways of working,
- exhibit good planning and project management skills, along with strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills,
- ideally, be familiar with purchasing and supply chain management,
- have fluent English language skills (both written and spoken).

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

**Closing date: 13.07.2023**

**Job Category**:
Procurement

**Posting Date**:
29 Juni 2023; 00:06