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Location:Coleford
Position: Full time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive Salary DOE
Our Client
Autograph Recruitment are always delighted to be partnered with this expert manufacturer based in Coleford. Providing bespoke solutions, assemblies and systems to high-profile customers, globally.
Their growth and success have been a result of having the right expertise in place to offer customers the best bespoke systems. Our client pride themselves on being a reputable business, classed as an employer of choice in the locality.
The Opportunity
This position is to assist in all areas relating to supplier engagement and relations for the tendering and ordering of materials. Managing suppliers, ensuring timely supplies of costly materials to satisfy customer needs is crucial to this position.
The successful candidate will have experience in a previous purchasing role, and will be able to maintain great customer relationships, and demonstrate source of quality and cost-effective products. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a family feel, purchasing team and very successful business.
Responsibilities of Buyer:
- Identify and build relationships with key suppliers, ensuring they meet company financial, quality and service standards
- Conduct supplier audits, aligning suppliers with company quality, timing and costs to establish a reliable supply chain
- Raising and taking ownership of purchase orders placed, ensuring best possible purchase practice
- Analyse supplier prices, and review MRP demands daily
- Maintain and manage supplier agreements and relationships, introduce confidentiality agreements, log order acknowledgements and action invoice queries in a timely manner
- Negotiate proposed supplier price increases in line with agreed procedures and conduct desk-top supplier audits using standard processes and procedures
- Negotiate supplier inventory levels and stock delivery in line with departments and business requirements
- Ensure compliance with company policy and procedures
- Support bid teams in quoting lead times and product data
The Ideal Candidate:
- Must have Buying / Purchasing experience within a manufacturing or engineering environment
- Must be able to demonstrate experience with developing supplier quality, cost and delivery
- Previous experience of cost analyst work and budget management
- Desirable of familiarisation in using ERP systems
- Ability to work in a busy environment at a consistent pace and manage timely tasks under pressure
- Working to deadlines efficiently, with high attention to detail
- Advanced knowledge of SAP and MRP’s
Next Steps:
If this sounds like a great opportunity and you can demonstrate a proven track record in delivering the above, then please click Apply to upload your CV for consideration.
Alternatively, contact Holly Williams on 01291 497280 or holly@autographrecruitment.co.uk
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