Senior Buyer - Coventry, United Kingdom - SF Group

SF Group

Verified Company

Coventry, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

SF Recruitment is working with a leading Manufacturing business in Coventry to recruit a Senior Buyer into their team.

Sourcing and Purchase of relevant components and materials, ensuring quality, cost and other relevant factors such as delivery are within specification and target.

Manage and ensure effective supplier relationships. Continual review of sourcing to ensure cost effect supply to the business.

This is a full time, perm position with hybrid working

The hours of Work:
37.5 8:30 - 5 Mon to Thurs, 8:30 - 2 Fri, paying £40 - 45k (depending on experience).

Main duties and responsibilities:

Responsible for the management of nominated commodities
To drive the achievement of Supply Chain Cost, Quality and Service objectives through successful delivery of strategies that result in identification, negotiation and contracting with suppliers that will deliver clear identified benefits to the business.
Purchasing of Production Material
To deliver against set targets and objectives, although not restricted to the following, primarily set in the areas of: Material Cost Reduction, Supplier Quality and Delivery performance, Inventory Management, Supplier Rationalisation, Supplier Payment Terms and number of completed Preferred Supplier Agreements (PSA).
Develop supplier relationships
Work closely with Group Purchasing Team to ensure effective supply to the business.
Ensure compliance with internal systems/processes
Effective Market Price Analysis - via traditional benchmarking techniques (RFQ/QAF)
Create robust supply agreements.
Responsible for Xm spend - specific details depending on 'portfolio' (£5m - £25m)
Undertake other duties and tasks, appropriate to the grade and skills of the post as reasonably directed from the organisation management structure
Responsibility for appropriate budgets/supplier relationships.
Relevant experience of purchasing within an engineering/ manufacturing environment
Experience of Oracle
Experience in global sourcing
BCC/LCC Sourcing with proven results
Customer Focused
Developing and maintaining internal and supplier relationships
Excellent communication skills
Proven record of cost reductions
Understanding of lean manufacturing, JIT and KanBan
Understand Contractual Law
Ability to control and improve cost of materials whilst maintaining integrity
Negotiation
Project Management Skills