Buyer - Rotherham, United Kingdom - Sarclad Ltd

Sarclad Ltd

Verified Company

Rotherham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Main Purpose

To Support all procurement processes and transactions for Sarclad Limited.
To provide efficient and costeffective sourcing of goods, equipment, and materials.
To ensure that all purchased items are the desired quality and specification in every respect, with due consideration to health, safety and environmental factors.

Responsibilities
Daily, weekly and monthly tasks including;

To ensure visibility of all items within the supply chain to ensure timely supply of materials, goods and equipment in line with our right partright time program.
To support production to meet the required delivery dates and allow shipment of units and spares OTIF through expediting and substituting where required to meet critical timelines
To develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers to

- _achieve strategic stocking arrangements_
- _nullify lead time risks_
- _create mutually beneficial price break arrangements_
- _deliver business plan objectives_
- _initiate non-conformance reports and corrective actions in conjunction with Quality

department_
- _share long term strategic growth of partnerships_

To negotiate best possible terms and costs with all suppliers
To mitigate risk from single source suppliers through proactive investigation of alternatives
Work with design team to identify alternatives and substitutions when shortages occur

Knowledge and Experience

The jobholder must:

Be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and experience of working at transactional and strategic levels across all functions in a fastmoving environment.
Be able to demonstrate successes in developing supplier relationships, managing vendor performance and successful negotiations, internationally.
Be a good teamplayer but equally capable of operating under his/ her own initiative.
Possess suitable qualifications for the position, ideally CIPS Level 6 and with excellent communication and IT skills.
Dynamic approach to mitigate against Global Supply Chain constraints

Preferred but not essential:

Have previous experience of working in a 'Continuous Improvement' environment and using CI tools to help solve problems
Have experience of procuring electronics components and working with the Siemens supplier base
Worked in the capital equipment sector
Have used the Progress Plus MRP system or similar

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
£25,000.00-£32,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
Free parking
Wellness programme

Schedule:

Day shift
Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

Do you have CIPS Level 6 or equivalent and excellent communication and IT skills?
Are you able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and experience of working at transactional and strategic levels across all functions in a fastmoving environment?
Are you able to demonstrate successes in developing supplier relationships, managing vendor performance and successful negotiations, internationally?

Experience: