Senior Buyer - Bolton, United Kingdom - Four Recruitment Limited

Four Recruitment Limited

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Bolton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Buyer - FMCG/Food

Global Manufacturing Business - £200million T/O

Salary - circa £50k

Leading global FMCG/Food Manufacturing business based in Bolton are looking for an experienced buyer to join their onsite team - this comes off the back of a period of growth and further investment for the business.

Reporting to the Purchasing Manager this role will support all buyng within the business.

Key Responsibilities

Manage/support Purchasing Assistant in the absence of the Purchasing Manager
Managing business KPI's
Supporting/assisting with business plans
Responsible for the management and purchasing of raw materials and other business procurement needs.
Develop, maintain and review supply strategies ensuring appropriate contingencies and ensuring supply ongoing.
Support the management of purchase contracts ensuring they are approved following company and group policies.
To ensure that all purchasing processes that are critical to product safety, legality & quality are procured to defined requirements.
To ensure good supplier relations are maintained in both ethical and professional manner.
To action all internal and external supplier queries promptly and efficiently.
Clearly communicate to all parties upstream and downstream within the supply chain.
Implement continuous improvements programmes into the business.
Work closely with all departments on sourcing new ingredients & packaging.
Maintain an understanding of retailer/customer requirements, processes and procedures.
Identify areas of cost savings on both Ingredients and packaging.
Support any supplier monitoring or improvement programs initiated.
Undertake supplier visits & host supplier visits.
Understand the supply market place and be able to challenge suppliers about performance.
Build strong relationships with retailers, and suppliers.
Ability to benchmark all areas.
Work closely with NPD, Sales, Technical Services and all other departments.
Support the procurement team to ensure the factory has ingredients and packaging when needed.
Support and suggest profit improvement plans following through projects to completion

Person Specification

Ideally, the business are looking for someone from an FMCG/Food or wider manufacturing background and have dealt with Raw materials previously
Experience in the use of SAP
Experience of dealing with difficult and sensitive situations in a diplomatic and professional manner
Extensive experience in a Buying role
The ability to look at the overall business process
Understanding of a commercial environment
Excellent analytical skills
Advanced user of Microsoft (Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint)