Buyer

Day to Day

• Work collaboratively within the Purchasing Team to understand and support business strategy
• Implement the supplier tendering and selection process
• Negotiate and draw up contracts with the selected supplier(s)
• Steer industrialisation and digitalisation in line with strategy
• Consolidate supplier assessments (quality, logistics, purchasing)
• Steer the supplier improvement action plans (improving operational performance, reducing costs)
• Manage supplier relations
• Ensure compliance with contractual and legal obligations of all parties
• Keep all purchase data up to date in systems
• Pro-actively deal with disputes
• Manage needs developments
• Ensure promotion of best practices in relation to your suppliers
• Act as a relay/ support for the Category Manager for your particular scope of activity, and report back on the information required for coordination
• Support the process for source start-up
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and internal standards

What We Would Love to See

• 5+ years experience within a Buyer position
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Strong numerical skills
• Highly organised, structured approach and able to work using own initiative
• Focused and task-oriented with resilience to complete a task in full
• Good communication, listening and negotiation abilities
• Knowledge of Industrial and Purchasing policies legal knowledge (contract)
• Knowledge of Lean-Sigma tools
• Previous experience within a purchasing team using purchasing information systems

Desirable

• Project Management experience
• Business Administration qualifications or similar
• Previous Customer Service Training qualification
• CIPS qualifications

If this position is of interest, we would love to hear from you.