I am recruiting for a Senior Buyer to join my client based in Thetford. This is a full time, permanent role where you are required to work full time on site with a condensed working pattern which includes an earlier finish on a Friday.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Influence key internal stakeholder relationships
- Procurement of portfolio of materials, goods or services within a category
- Identify and work with suppliers
- Gather, analyse, interpret and act upon market intelligence
- Gather and maintain purchasing records, supplier data and procurement contracts
- Monitoring and forecasting inventory, determining purchasing needs and identify costs.
- Maintaining raw material expenditure % to manufactured sales within the agreed target levels
- Communicate to internal stakeholders as appropriate
- Minimise risk to continuity of supply by carrying out supplier risk assessments for the portffolio's suppliers and implementing corrective actions as required.
- Ensure supply agreements are based upon formal legal T&Cs
- Other duties as required.
Requirements for the role:
- Buying experience within a manufacturing environment
- Task focused and organised
- Ability to work independently
- Strong communication skills and the ability to problem solve
- Strong team player
- CIPS qualified would be desired, however not essential. Study support is also supported and encouraged.
For more information on this role, please contact Emily at Pure.