Buyer

Job Description

Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world.

Pall is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

As a Buyer You Will

Be responsible for all aspects of Materials Management, Procurement and Strategic Sourcing for the supply of products and services, encompassing Direct / BOM and Indirect / Non-BOM spend. The position is a professional individual contributor role within a high-performance team, to achieve on-time delivery to target and optimise capacity/cost and service across a portfolio of products and undertake administration and reporting activities.

This role is open for 2 buyers to join the team. It is an on-site role, based in Redruth, and it will report to the Senior Buyer.

The Essential Requirements Of The Job Include

• The ability to manage the end-to-end supply of materials from an assigned supplier portfolio, ensuring supplier performance meets quality, delivery and cost expectations. This includes ensuring materials are delivered in alignment with production schedules enabling availability to production rather than only receipt at goods-in.
• Responsible for day-to-day purchasing activities, ensuring consistent product and service supply and managing supplier performance to achieve Quality, Delivery, and Cost (QDC) objectives and the management of all issues arising in relation to the vendor commodity portfolio, including but not limited to: Quality, Productivity, On Time Delivery and Inventory

The role requires an understanding of transition processes to manage ongoing supply base changes, including insourcing, outsourcing and supplier-to-supplier transfers and the ability to work within an established team and participate in other sourcing exercises that may arise.

Monitoring and evaluating supplier performance and aligning corrective actions as required

Supporting the Supplier Relationship Manager with the development and negotiation of commercial agreements with vendors, encompassing 3P, Q&L criteria, key program specifics, functional and corporate objectives, with a strong focus on risk and liability mitigation strategies to produce a win-win outcome and assist in continued development of grow/maintain/phase out supplier strategies, driving continuous improvement.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Supporting new business proposals / opportunities with supplier technological inputs / information.
• Experience in working with an ERP/MRP controlled manufacturing environment
• Understanding of purchasing “best practice” including, but not limited to, Supplier PULL systems, VMI, supplier assessment and vendor rating, including supplier performance reviews.
• Strong analytical skills to support / drive business decisions and performance and self-motivated, with the ability to organise and plan to deliver the required business goals and objectives
  
  

Pall Corporation, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.