Senior Buyer - Chesterfield, United Kingdom - Chase and Holland Recruitment Ltd

Chase and Holland Recruitment Ltd
Chase and Holland Recruitment Ltd
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Chesterfield, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Senior Buyer - Chesterfield - Competitive Salary

Chase and Holland are excited to be working with an established and growing manufacturing business based in Chesterfield who are recruiting a Senior Buyer to join their established team.

As Senior Buyer, you will purchase goods, materials and services to ensure that the company operational needs are met, taking into account price, quality and delivery and to ensure continuity of supply.


In Return You'll Receive:


  • 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) raising to 33 days with years of service + Birthday off
  • Medical Cash Plan
  • Onsite canteen facility
  • Pension scheme
  • Regular staff engagement & company events
  • Free onsite parking

Senior Buyer Responsibilities:


  • Monitor market trends, competitor strategies and market suppliers
  • Research and evaluate areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible
  • Deliver briefs, updates and reports as and when required to internal and external stakeholders
  • Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement
  • Negotiate contracts, improved prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
  • Assess and evaluate suppliers and undertake performance reviews to ensure contract compliance and manage performance improvement activities
  • Explore alternate sources for goods and materials
  • Assess tenders and quotations from potential suppliers
  • Prepare purchase orders in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers and in line with organisational targets and requirements
  • Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery or invoice issues
  • Work collaboratively and negotiate and engage with stakeholders and suppliers regarding new projects, supplies and initiatives and advise of impact of change on purchasing and production activities
  • Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact
  • Attend meetings and update others on issues or concerns, in particular when there is a risk which could prevent the organisation meeting customer demands or where there are over capacity concerns
  • Support product change requests and review and communicate the impact on capacity plans

Hours: 7:30am - 3:30pm Monday to Thursday and 7:30am - 1.30pm Friday (30 minutes lunch)


Required Skills & Experience:


  • Membership of Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply
  • CIPS (Desirable)
  • Proven purchasing experience, preferably within a manufacturing environment
  • Ability to add value, reduce costs and make business improvements
  • Contract management and supplier experience
  • Project management experience
  • Strong technical knowledge of supply chain management
  • Computer literate including intermediate Excel skills (Pivot tables/Vlookups etc)


Chase & Holland acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.

We specialise in finance, supply chain, HR, IT and office support recruitment and comfortably service Yorkshire, Derbyshire,Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire.

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