Buyer

Job Description: Buyer

Location: Nottingham

Rate of pay: £Negotiable depending on experience

Shifts: Days Monday to Thursday 8:00am-4:15pm Friday 8.00am - 14.00pm

Length of contract: Permanent

This position is primarily to provide purchasing and stock management activities to support my clients internal and external customers. Key to this role is participating in cross-functional teams, ensuring stock is available for the efficient running of our vehicles and those of our customers whilst, achieving cost reduction initiatives, ensuring on time delivery in full and supporting the warehouse function in meeting customer demands.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Working within the procurement team to carry out planning and purchasing tasks and supporting the warehouse team members.
• Be a strong team player with ability to work effectively on cross-functional project teams.
• Participate in supplier quality activities such as corrective action completion.
• Utilise supply contracts within the business to take advantage of contracted pricing and agreed lead time.
• You will assist in qualifying suppliers through Supplier Quality audits and continuously reviewing supplier performance.
• Coordinate with the Warehousing, Commercial and Engineering departments on product supply issues and improvements.
• Must be capable of handling multiple tasks at any given time.
• Review purchase requests for material via MRP, manual purchase requisitions or supporting material requests.
• Input purchase order data & maintain ERP (LN and FAMS) data integrity.
• Monitor purchase orders to maintain delivery schedules ensuring on time delivery in full.
• Provide regular feedback on supply issues to stake holders.
• Expediting critical components and overdue purchase orders.
• Resolve supplier issues associated with over shipments, invoicing issues, obsolescence, rework and scrap material, and work closely with the Quality Manager to resolve supplier quality issues.
• Must be able to develop excellent working relationship with both internal and external customers as well as suppliers.
• Manage the Purchase Price Variance monthly & work strategically to achieve better pricing.
• Review, analyse and interpret various reports.
• Evaluate and review safety stocks to maximise our stock profile.
• Travel may be required to visit suppliers and build relationships.
• Any other reasonable duties as required.

Skills / Qualifications:

• Purchasing in a rail or engineering environment.
• Technical purchasing and out-sourcing skills.
• Purchasing experience in an MRP environment.
• MCIPS qualified or willing to study towards MCIPS qualification.
• Ability to read engineering drawings or any relevant technical documents.
• Excellent negotiation, presentation, verbal and written communication skills.
• Project management experience.
• Solid skills in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access).
• Good customer service skills.
• Ability to prioritise.

For more information about this role, please contact Ronnie Burton at Shorterm Group on or send your CV to