- The Senior Buyer role will be responsible for the management of new tenders through our supply chain from enquiry to production order launch.
- This role requires a detail orientated professional, who possesses excellent communication and relationship building skills, coupled with the ability to work under a somewhat time pressured environment to satisfy production demands.
Client Details
- My client are a renowned award-winning business of solutions to many of the most successful and companies worldwide, employing more than 200 people in the west midlands and continuing its growth path
Description
- Build and maintain supplier relationships, providing clear communication on day to day procurement activities.
- Work with suppliers when reviewing tenders to ensure correct information is sent and best solution provided upon tendering
- Liaise with wider PP team when making supplier selection decisions
- Be clear and concise when reviewing tenders with Procurement/Commercial and have the ability to offer multiple business cases to offer the customer the best supply chain solution to meet their needs
- Ability to liaise with PP customers as applicable when making supply chain decisions and support both the Procurement and Commercial Manager as appropriate
- Escalate issues that cannot be resolved within the wider team to the Procurement Manager.
Profile
- Experience with fast paced strategic procurement ideally from manufacturing
- To work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to establish and maintain working relationships.
- Engage in training/team building exercises to promote cross functional working
- Support/facilitate project work when required
- Demonstrate core values of the business
Job Offer
- Salary up to £45k
- Simply Health - Medical cover (cash towards dentist, optical etc)
- Death in Service and Terminal illness cover x1 Annual Salary
- 25 Annual Leave + 1 extra day to cover birthday plus Bank Holidays
- 5% Matched Pension
- CIPS support or any other learning post 12-week probation pass