Buyer - Coventry, United Kingdom - BRELLIS RECRUITMENT LIMITED

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  • Salary £33k to £40k. 25+8 days holidays, Life assurance x3, 37 hours per week, early finish on a Friday.**We are recruiting a buyer for an established engineering company and a leading expert in technology, designing and manufacturing products for the rail and industrial sectors for over sixty years.


This role will see you efficiently manage the Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order process to ensure that services are delivered on time and to budget.

This role is responsible for developing and maintaining current approved vendors and will also be akey business partner in the long-term procurement and supply chain plan, aligning capability to group requirements to meet its growth requirements.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES + DUTIES
If responsible for KPI's, Budgets/ Revenue please indicate in this area

  • Place orders for materials / services in line with company's requirements and processes for both Requisitions and orders.
  • Find potential suppliers, negotiate prices and terms, and make agreements or contracts for purchases to meet quality standards and company objectives.
  • Conduct supplier business reviews for approved vendors to strength and maintain key relationships, evaluating supplier performance and compliance to company parameters
  • Maintain and update item price files by category, to ensure data accuracy of price breaks, leadtimes, MOQ's/ lot sizes
  • Work with Operational planning and commercial functions to ensure Inventory levels are maintained and controlled in accordance with company cash flow objectives
  • Work with Operations, PED and Engineering to control all noninventory spend and setup autonomous replenishment systems to maximise availability to support customer satisfaction expectations
  • Monitor and report on PPV (Purchasing Price Variance) on a monthly basis
  • Escalation point for past due MRP orders and/ or MRP order queries, if calloff planning cannot obtain answers from approved vendors
  • Provide procurement support for UK's New Product Development/ Introduction plans
  • Lead cross functional supplier reviews and corrective action process to improve and maintain supplier OTD in support of company COTD
  • Lead cross functional supplier reviews and corrective action process to improve and maintain supplier Quality performance
  • Engage with cross functional activities, including delivery of process creation and/ or change to support company growth & Improvement

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE

  • HND / Degree Level or relevant experience
  • CIPS qualified or working towards (desirable)
  • Experience in Procurement in an engineering environment
  • MRP experience
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working in cross functional teams
  • MS Office proficient (Especially Excel, Word and powerpoint)
  • Working knowledge of PDM and workflow management

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