Buyer - 116699 - Fareham, United Kingdom - Experis LTD

Experis LTD

Verified Company

Fareham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Buyer

Fareham

6-month contract

Position Summary
This position is responsible for managing and supporting both NPI and Operational procurement within a fast-paced environment.

The role will consist of creating the weekly supplier schedule reports, securing acknowledgements from the sub-suppliers, maintaining MRP records accordingly and expediting all parts to ensure we deliver to the system dates, monitoring / reporting allocatedperformance KPI's.

Obtaining quotations, raising purchase orders, maintaining the costing databases and supporting the overall purchasing function with ongoing projects.

It is expected that the buyer will have knowledge & experience of working with, managing and developing suppliers to support the current & future business needs.

As a buyer it is also expected that they will be experienced in reducing / eliminating risk andensuring continuity of parts supply from sub-suppliers identifying cost reduction opportunities that support the direct and indirect cost reduction targets.

It is ideal that they would have experience of framework agreements (LTA) and the key elements that will be expected from suppliers when these are executed.

The ability to understand and interpret engineering drawings is advantageous.

Job responsibilities:

Tactical Purchasing - 90%

Working closely with engineering on NPI projects whilst being the main procurement point of contact
Creating the weekly supplier schedule reports
Securing acknowledgements from the subsuppliers
Maintaining MRP records
Expediting all parts to ensure we hit the system dates
Obtaining quotations, raising purchase orders, maintaining the costing databases and supporting the overall purchasing function with ongoing projects.
Working with suppliers to support the current & future business needs.
Reducing / eliminating risk and ensuring continuity of parts supply from subsuppliers
Identifying cost reduction opportunities that support the direct and indirect cost reduction targets.
Liaise with stores/production to arrange sub contract operations as required.
Investigating and resolving invoice queries

Team, Continuous Improvement & Networking - 10%

As required supporting the Supply Chain Lead with local / Group reporting of metrics on supplier performance using the Vendigital reporting business tool
Monitoring / reporting allocated performance KPI's
Attend daily DLA's
Attend Team Meetings and others as required

Required skillset:

Strong purchasing background
Knowledge and experience within supply chain, a successful track record of negotiating with a variety of suppliers, using different approaches & methodologies
Good Risk management mindset, proactive in identifying and dealing with potential business risks
Experienced in procuring parts from commodity suppliers & also specialist manufacturers making customs parts or those suppliers providing specialist services
Proactively seeking out new opportunities for the business to reduce cost & leadtime
Organized & professional individual, experienced in communicating clearly and accurately with all stakeholders
Experienced in procurement best practices and experienced in executing the business purchasing strategy
Good interpersonal and communication skills with ability to drive tasks to completion
Experience of operating within a matrix organization /ability to manage expectations of multiple stakeholders
Proficient in using Microsoft Office suite
Proficient in using an ERP System, experienced in the use of SAP or similar system