Purchaser - Bicester, United Kingdom - Plus One Personnel

Plus One Personnel

Verified Company

Bicester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Purchaser

Job Details

Sector:

Purchasing & Procurement

Location:

Bicester, Oxfordshire

Type:

Permanent

Salary:

£ £32148 per annum

Reference:

6025_

Main Responsibilities:

Work with the Production and Commercial departments to understand their medium and longterm requirements.
Complete purchase orders as required.
Update purchasing records and provide reports and metrics as required.
Use the Medium Long-Term Planning (MLTP) forecast of upcoming requirements to ensure that components are available to fulfill requirements.
Closely monitor stock levels to ensure the needs of the operations department are met without over purchasing stock.
Balance stock holding with target total stock value and committed purchases.
Look for and identify opportunities for cost reductions on stock.
Keep lead times updates in line with actual lead times provided by suppliers.
Understand how costings affect the business and ensure that standard costings accurately reflect the actual costings
Build effective supplier relationships and support to develop these further by assisting with supplier review visits and attending exhibitions.
Proactively expedite suppliers for updates on orders, looking at overdue orders plus those that are due within the coming week.
Identify and inform of any supplier poor performance issues or any other supplier concerns.
Work with suppliers to source and negotiate parts in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets.
Work with suppliers, identifying works that can be subcontracted in terms of assemblies and box builds.
Work with suppliers to rectify damaged and defective goods.

Key Skills and Experience:

Experience converting sales demand and forecast information into a planned ordering/ delivery schedule.
Understands how bill of materials and subassemblies work to build electronicsbased products.
Comfortable dealing with suppliers to negotiate price breaks, including placing purchase contracts and calloff orders.
Holds suppliers accountable for delivering on time and in full. Is comfortable following up on late deliveries.
Able to identify threats and takes appropriate action before problems arise. Forward planner to ensure supplies arrive sufficiently in advance of need.
Enjoys working on own and collaboratively, with people inside and outside the Purchasing and Stores team.
Can communicate information concisely to internal stakeholders regarding late delivery of components, understands the related commercial implications, and offers mitigation strategies where possible.

Additional Information:

This is a fulltime permanent role working Monday to Thursday 8 am pm and Friday 8 am 3 pm.
Hybrid working available.
27 Days Holiday + Bank holidays
Group income protection insurance scheme and death in service scheme
Smart casual dress code
Discretionary profit share bonus paid in June.