Details:
- Salary: £40,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Swadlincote
- Date: 3 days ago
Description:
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday
Salary: Up to £40,000
Location: Swadlincote
SF Recruitment have a great opportunity to join one of our fantastic client based in South Derbyshire who are looking for a Buyer to join their Procurement team. This is an exciting new role to join a fast-paced team on a full-time, permanent basis. This is an office based role.
Suitable candidates will come from a Procurement background and have confidence liaising with suppliers, negotiating lead times and raising Purchase orders. You will need excellent communication skills to regularly communicate with Production and Suppliers. The primary responsibility of this role is to coordinate the Supply Chain functions on site.
Key Duties
- Manage a selection of direct and indirect suppliers, facilitating the timely delivery of goods on to site
- Expediting orders whilst using negotiation techniques to improve lead times where necessary
- Sourcing product and obtaining quotes when new/alternative materials are required
- Working closely with the production and planning teams to ensure all material needs are met to ensure sales targets and delivery dates are met
- General supply chain administration tasks such as raising purchase orders and solving invoicing queries
- Adhere to and support all system requirements
- Achieve/Exceed budgeted annual Purchasing Excellence Savings
- Mitigate price increases
It is essential you have worked in a similar role before and would be advantageous if you are used to working in a Manufacturing/ Engineering/Distribution environment. You will need to have strong experience using MRP/ERP systems and feel comfortable with Excel as this is used on a daily basis.
If you would like further details please get in touch today