Senior Buyer - Rushden, United Kingdom - Berry Global, inc

Berry Global, inc

Verified Company

Rushden, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Contact:

Overview:

Purpose of the Role:

Purchase goods, materials and services to ensure the company operational needs are met across 3 production facilities (Rushden, Deeside and Plenmeller), taking into account price, quality and delivery and to ensure continuity of supply.

Qualifications:

Proven purchasing experience, preferably within a manufacturing environment
Ability to add value, reduce costs and make business improvements
Contract management and supplier experience
Project management experience would be ideal

Computer literate, to include all Microsoft programmes experience with Sage would be an advantage

Responsibilities:

Relationship Management

Work collaboratively and negotiate and engage with stakeholders and suppliers regarding new projects, supplies and initiatives and advise of impact of change on purchasing and production activities
Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact
Advise the Commercial Manager of issues or concerns, in particular when there is a risk which could prevent the organisation meeting customer demands or where there are over capacity concerns
Support product change requests and review and communicate the impact on capacity plans
Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and ensure good communications

Personal Specification:

Embrace personal challenge
Confident, rounded thinking
Be selfaware
Be assertive, optimistic and open to change
Engage interest and participation of others and have a collaborative approach to working with others
Proactively contribute to the team
Resilient, selfmotivated and able to work well under pressure

Skills and Attributes:

Skilled at building and maintaining effective and productive relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers
Strong negotiation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
Analytical, numerically astute with strong proven problemsolving abilities
Results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines
Commercially and financially aware
Keen attention to detail and accuracy
Ability to work as part of a small team and individually