Senior Buyer

Salary: £42,000 – £50,400 per year

I’m working with a client that is a multinational business with operations across the UK. We are looking to recruit a Senior Buyer within the Supply Chain department for a leading consumer product/distributor, this role has flexible working with remote working from home, as well as requirements to be on-site during the week.

This is a newly created role in the business that needs an individual to take ownership of this area of the portfolio, forging excellent working partnerships with external stakeholders, to ensure the timely delivery of product in line with customer demand and forecast.

The Buyer position is a role seeking a proactive commercial minded Buyer that has the ability to be both strategic and operational.

Depending your experience the client is paying between £35-42k.

The role of Buyer will manage supplier relationships and ensure stock availability in order to support sales, whilst ensuring slow moving inventory is not overstocked. Balancing the needs of the business and customer.

Responsibilities:

– Maintenance of purchasing contracts, agreements and terms
– Practical involvement in identifying suppliers
– Manage & maintain module budget
– Manage & maintain module order book
– Responding to internal stock requests in a timely manner and in line with company strategy
– Manage suppliers open order books
– Placing and managing outgoing POs
– Maintaining Auto-Order, correct lead times, minimum stocks etc. where appropriate
– Supplier reporting and forecasting
– Facilitating and tracking supplier rebates where appropriate
– Preventing identifying and resolving critical shortages
– Preventing, identifying and resolving allocation issues
– Master data such as commodity codes, country of origin etc.
– Delivery costs maintenance
– Supplier relationships/communications
– Ensuring appropriate stock levels via system interrogation and subsequent actions
– Negotiations
– Understand market and product changes and how they affect product strategies and communicate this to the wider business

Key competencies:
– Displaying a sense of urgency
– Understanding of products and their applications, our markets and their drivers, our customers and their needs
– Ability to be agile
– Keep up to date with market trends and react swiftly to changes in demand
– Planning, prioritising and organisational skills
– Communication skills, internally and externally
– Respect for manufacturer, customer and colleague relations
– Understand our manufacturers capabilities, capacities and priorities and put in place contingency plans where necessary
– Attention to detail
– Ability to see the wider impact and plan for consequence
– Negotiation skills
– Risk management skills

Salary:

– £35,000 – £42,000 + Benefits

Huddersfield 2days a week, 3 days from home.

To find out more and apply please send your CV to Carl Walker.

Elevation Recruitment Group’s Procurement and Supply Chain division work with a vast range of businesses across Yorkshire and Humberside, Lincolnshire and East Midlands regions.