Purchasing – Placement Year

Overview

In this placement you join the Purchasing team to learn by doing, taking ownership from day one. You will support supplier sourcing, tendering, and compliance activities while working with cross-location teams. The role emphasizes real responsibilities, project work, and data-driven insights to inform procurement decisions. You’ll contribute to sourcing and contract processes and gain exposure to the end-to-end purchasing function within a leading automotive brand.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days holiday (pro rata)
• pension scheme
• subsidised on-site restaurant
• Advantages scheme with offers and discounts
• supportive work environment
• wellbeing and work-life balance

Responsibilities

• Support supplier sourcing, tendering, and specification formulation
• Assist with due diligence, compliance checks, and contract management
• Contribute to small-scale purchasing requests and commodity strategy planning
• Maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and promote procurement best practices
• Perform reporting, data analysis, and prepare insights to support decision-making
• Lead small projects and support departmental activities

Key requirements

• Bachelor toward degree with 2:2 or above
• Experience of MS Office, especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Self-motivated and able to take responsibility for tasks and projects
• Willingness to work flexibly
• Good communication and teamworking skills

• communication
• teamworking
• self-motivation
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint

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