The Lead Buyer plays a dual role for the Purchasing of Spare Parts: 

• Local role: manage the team of Buyers to purchase services links to his subcategory in his/her cluster. 


• Transversal role: identify with the cluster Lead User the benchmark activities within the hub to transfer them across Europe (TCO, supplier panel, process management…). 

Local and transversal approaches are combined by the definition of the Annual Project Portfolio built by the Lead Buyer for his hub in close cooperation with the Subcategory Management and other Lead Buyers.

The Lead Buyer ensures that all requirements of the hub for the subcategory are fulfilled by the Buyers in due time with the best solution. The Lead Buyer also monitors key steps of projects conducted in other hubs for the specific activity they oversees.

In this role the Lead Buyer is responsible for:

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