Indirect Buyer

Indirect Buyer

Manchester Site

6-12 Months Contract (With the opportunity to go permanent)

Full time onsite

The Buyer / Expeditor provides support to the purchasing team ensuring the timely delivery of goods and services.

In addition to annual initiatives, the key accountabilities of this position are:

Buying

• Analyse Material Requirement Planning and issues purchase orders to domestic and international suppliers
• Progress and check order acknowledgements
• Maintain accurate system data for suppliers, lead time, pricing, batch sizes and cost process fields for new items
• Build and develop collaborative relationships with suppliers
• Participate in monthly Key Performance Indicator verification of supplier results and achievements
• Support the procurement Manager in line with the company’s annual purchasing cost reduction strategy.
• Maintain a risk assessment of key suppliers based on supplier quality and delivery performance, supply category and capacity to meet future demand.
• Negotiate competitive with existing and new potential suppliers to obtain competitive prices, lead times and service levels.
• Ensure Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is amended for any variation against standard costs.

Expediate

• Proactively expedite the timely delivery of goods and services to meet business requirements
• Liaise with production planning to provide updates on critical shortages and mitigate any potential delays to meeting customer deadlines.
• Consolidate shipments where possible to reduce both transportation and transactional costs.
• Active involvement in cross-functional teams through interaction with Quality, Production, Goods In, Finance, Engineering and Sales.
• Identify any areas of concern and opportunities for continuous improvement, using 5S and lean principles.

Role Requirements

• 2 years of Purchasing or Supply Chain experience within an engineering, manufacturing and distribution operations in an industrial environment
• Experience working with a Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) system or an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Member of Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Chain (MCIPS/ CIPS) or working towards this qualification is desirable.
• Creative problem-solving skills, conflict management within different organizations (centralized and matrix organizational structures)
• Strong, team-oriented skills with presence and a bias for action.
• Self-directed with ability to work autonomously and collaboratively and a focus on results.
• Ability to communicate in an open and authentic manner in all situations