Stafforce
Location
Bradford | United Kingdom
Job description
Group Buyer
Our client based in Bradford BD8 is looking for an experience Group Buyer to join their successful team. This is a fantastic permanent opportunity.
The Group Buyer purpose is to achieve the best procurement for the group, maintaining service, integrity, and quality in compliance with Food Safety and Quality and all customer requirements. Looking for new ideas and opportunities and communicating across relevant departments.
Salary £32.000-£38.000 per annum
Working Hours :9.00am -5.00pm Monday to Friday
Job Role and Main Duties:
• Works with operations, planning and organising all tasks.
• Be a strong team player with ability to work effectively on cross-functional projects.
• Review purchase request for material or manual purchase requisition.
• Monitor purchase orders to maintain delivery schedules.
• Must be able to develop excellent working relationship with both internal and external customers as well as suppliers.
• Maintain supplier relationships in order to drive cost reductions while continually achieving the highest level of quality material.
• Ability to interface with company and supplier senior management.
• Excellent negotiation, presentation, verbal and written communication skills.
• Plan & expedite the required material to ensure availability, whilst maintaining inventory levels to a minimum and in line with set targets.
• Issue demand forecasts to suppliers and verify requirements can be met to support facility production plan.
• Supplier negotiation.
• Agreeing and managing contracts
• Report supply issues and assist in finding a solution.
• Working with NPD team sourcing and costing materials and product briefs
• Group supply chain coherence, liaising and managing in new contracts
• You will be the point of contact for supplier invoice queries. You will assist the supply & production teams in the resolution and provide feedback to the finance teams.
Key Attributes/Skills:
• Minimum of 2-5 years of work experience, preferably in a heavy manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Proficient computer skills in MS Office. (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Purchasing experience (desired)
• Strong negotiating skills, ability to multitask, prioritise work and work closely with other departments.
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the procurement field.
• Be able to take responsibility for resolution of issues.
• You should be self-motivated, and results orientated.
• Be able to work to time constraints & use own initiatives to solve problems.
Please apply online
For more information on this vacancy please contact us on 01274913720.
Job tags
Salary
£32k - £36k per annum
