Buyer

Salary: £38.4 – £50.68 per hour

The Buyer will support the Defence and Civil business lines whilst reporting to the Procurement Manager, the Buyer will need to flexible for monthly national travel for supplier visits and there is flexibility to work from home for up to 1 day per week dependent on the needs of the business. The Buyer will be accountable for local commercial management and assigned non-strategic sourcing for an allocated geographical area.

• Report procurement activity and site reviews
• Ensure geographical area interface between programme and commodity management for new sourcing and change programmes in line with the group commodity strategy
• Support commodity managers for the geographic region supplier selection RFQ and RFP with the use of E-Sourcing tools
• Support and ensure parts and supplier transfers and industrialisation (major and minor transfers) through to FAI
• Drive implementation of global and regional agreements within geographic area
• Ensure the transfer of parts from PO to schedule including the negotiation of moving from schedule to consignment and DLF etc.
• Confirm all PO demands placed upon suppliers to ensure that key objectives of cost, quality and delivery are secured
• Manage site procurement change control, export control and ITAR
• Ensure the delivery, maintenance and integrity of site BOM
• Ensure item and contract data is updated and maintained
• Confirm the flow down of enabled customer materials, pricing and skyline forecasts to suppliers
• Develop and support site cost reduction opportunities and supplier development plans in-line with business requirements
• Ensure supplier risk including use of rate readiness templates and awareness of Dunn & Bradstreet for financials
• Manage Raw Material Inventory levels for Purchase Order parts in line with programme targets and start dates
• Resolve invoice queries related to pricing
• Escalation point for any cost and contractual issues with suppliers working with Senior Buyers and commodity management where further escalation is required

Your Experience:

• Level 3 CIPS or working towards
• Prior Purchasing experience within a Manufacturing environment
• Familiar with MRP systems
• Contract negotiation exposure

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates