Job Title: Commodity Buyer
Location: Peterborough
Shift: Monday - Friday (8am -4.30pm Office based)
Salary: up to £45,000 per annum
The Role
- Develop and maintain commodity strategics for a specific range of commodities, ensuring that our client is kept up to date on marketplace commercial and technical developments as well as potential suppliers.
- Evaluating cost data and analysis forms and identifying any cost saving opportunities.
- Dealing with contractual negotiations with current and potential suppliers
- Understanding tools and techniques to close cost gaps and looking at value for money whilst maintaining existing supplier relationships
- Managing supplier performance
- Providing procurement and commercial input into cross-functional teams that effectively contributes to the organisation's goals
- Working closely with the quality department
- Constantly striving for process improvement opportunities and focussing on 'best practice' initiatives
- Identifying supplier risk and develop risk mitigation strategies
- Lead and promote good supplier relationships
- Carry out any other duties required within the purpose of the job
The Candidate
- The successful candidate for this role would ideally be CIPS qualified with a minimum of 4 years' experience of working as a buyer within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience of negotiating with suppliers
- Intermediate level for MS Excel with the ability to analyse data
- Experience of using ERP/MRP systems
- Excellent communication skills with results driven attitude
- Ability to work under pressure