Senior Buyer

To be part of the team who conduct and manage our supply chain focussed activities. The team focus on the timely control of our purchase orders & supply chain, supply forecasting and raw material inventory levels. To be an active member of new product introduction (NPI) projects, ensuring excellent performance with a key focus on supplier performance for cost, quality, delivery and communication.

Responsibilities:

• Manage material supply to production and sales via use of MRP (Materials Requirements Planning) driven purchasing with focus on supplier performance (on-time delivery, supplier quality and purchase price variance)
• Negotiate and establish pricing and supplier agreements.
• Manage supplier communications for performance and forecasting.
• Maintaining MRP procurement data (lead-times, prices, batch sizing, safety stock, etc)
• Identify and control obsolescence risks.
• Control freight inwards costs
• Involved with creation of new MRP items.
• Identify and implement cost saving projects.
• Input into supply chain risk register and risk reduction activities.
• Handle vendor managed inventory (VMI) programs.
• Identify and develop opportunities for supplier improvement and/or rationalisation.
• Create, schedule and maintain internal orders for replenishment of spares and consumables.
• Represent supply chain within the cross-function and NPI meetings.
• Processing of purchase requisition for direct and in-direct spend.
• Manage non-conformance materials and the supplier returns process.
• Attend and/or host supplier review meetings.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience of procurement for a manufacturing organisation
• Experience of procurement via MRP or similar
• Exposure to CIPS or similar in-role experience
• Strong communication skills
• Strong spreadsheet/MS Excel skills