Buyer

Location: - Halifax Area

Posion: Buyer

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000

Job role:

Responsible for timely delivery of all Materials and Services to site in accordance with the constraints & lead-times agreed between the business and the suppliers. Maintains clear and effective lines of communication between suppliers and the business and Internal Customers to ensure that Materials are delivered in accordance with agreed plan. Ensure KPIs and actions trackers/plans are used effectively to manage and escalate supplier performance as appropriate. Maintain business systems with up to date information, parameters and data to ensure purchasing and supply process are driven by exceptions.

Objectives:-

• Create and implement category sourcing strategies utilising Category Management process
• Manage all commercial aspects of sourcing - spend analysis, tendering and business award
• Source and evaluate new products to promote cost savings and efficiencies
• Negotiate, implement and maintain supplier framework agreements
• Undertake Supplier performance reviews as deemed necessary in order to maintain Supplier performance levels for Quality, Cost, Delivery
• Responsible for driving and implementing Supplier Development programmes for category preferred Suppliers
• Drive cost reduction, VAVE activity and report all cost saving activity against agreed targets
• Supply Chain lead and support to cross divisional projects and initiatives
• Responsible for the timely conversion of requisitions to purchase orders through to purchase order placement
• Obtain written confirmation of agreed delivery dates by means of securing formal purchase order acknowledgements
• Responsibility to ensure that both Materials & Services are delivered to site in line with the delivery dates agreed between with supplier
• Timely updating of the SAP system, identifying agreed delivery dates from all materials and to take proactive steps to mitigate and recovery any potential impacts to planned production requirements
• Management of any potential delivery shortages so that effective countermeasures can be jointly agreed and implemented in a timely manner
• Proactive approach to visit Suppliers as deemed necessary in order to audit “Supplier Delivery Trackers” against planned production schedules to track Plan Vs Actual
• Undertake additional duties as reasonably deemed necessary in support of on-going business requirements
• Management of supplier stock and stock takes for vendors
• Ensure all work personally undertaken is carried out in compliance with current H&S rules and safety systems, and is in line with the requirements of the duty of care document.
• Flexibility to support multiple commodity areas as required
• Requirement to cover additional hours to support business demands