Buyer
IW-509
Posted: 07/00/2024
- £30000 to £36000 Per: annum + Benefits: Excellent Benefits Package!
- Deeside, Wales,
- Permanent
We are currently recruiting for a Buyer to join a world leader in engineered polymer solutions, based in their offices in Deeside. This is a full time, permanent role working either 9am – 5pm OR 8.30am – 4.30pm Monday to Friday, offering a salary of £30-36,000 per annum dependent on experience.
This Buyer role is reporting into the Supply Chain Manager, where you will be part of a small team of 4 people, with responsibility for ensuring goods and services are supplied to the business in a timely manner, along with leading day to day purchasing team operations.
Your key responsibilities will include:
We are really keen to hear from applicants with the following skills and experience:
Please get in touch with us today to discuss this exciting Buyer opportunity in Deeside!
This Buyer role is reporting into the Supply Chain Manager, where you will be part of a small team of 4 people, with responsibility for ensuring goods and services are supplied to the business in a timely manner, along with leading day to day purchasing team operations.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Responsible for both direct and indirect purchasing
- Achieving the lowest cost of acquisition across multiple suppliers, categories of spend and location.
- Improving Vendor Payment terms in line with ongoing business requirements.
- Identifying opportunity for supplier improvements and negotiating these changes.
- Maintaining all relevant cost, lead time and other Supply Chain information on Dynamics 365.
- Establishing Contracts of Supply and Pricing Agreements where applicable for significant suppliers
- Sourcing and evaluating new / alternative suppliers as part of the continuous improvement philosophy
- Identifying training and development needs for the procurement team.
- Ensuring value added collaboration between departments, sites, and business areas
- Deputising for the Supply Chain Manager by attending company meetings, as required.
- Ensuring that processes are carried out to ISO9001 standards
- Establishing and maintaining good working relationships with Planning Department.
We are really keen to hear from applicants with the following skills and experience:
- Previous experience of working in a Buyer role within a manufacturing enviromnment ideally
- Supervisory experience will be useful as you will be delegating workload between 2 Purchasing Administrators
- Experience in working with multiple suppliers and high volumes of SKUs will be beneficial
- Excellent stakeholder communication
- Strong IT skills – MS Office
- Dynamics 365 / ERP will be an advantage, but not essential
- CIPS or degree in business or engineering – desirable, not essential.
Please get in touch with us today to discuss this exciting Buyer opportunity in Deeside!
