Buyer Part Time
- West Sussex, South East England
- Salary not specified
- 6 applications
- Job type: Permanent, part-time
- Date:
- Reference: 21129383
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Duration: Ongoing Perm
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The Role :
Routine management and main point of contact of suppliers (internal or external) including:-
1. Maintaining adequate order cover, ensuring that materials are ordered and delivered in a timely manner using a variety of purchasing techniques such as blanket or scheduled orders, Faxban orders; to ensure all production requirements are met and within inventory budget. Buyer will ensure that annual blanket orders are negotiated favourably and put in place.
2. Where necessary, travel to suppliers to carry out regular meetings on cost, quality and delivery. Communicate with Supply Chain Manager and Purchasing team on all actions.
3. Progressing orders and resolving supply problems, seeking assistance of Supply Chain Manager where necessary and notifying the Planners if there is any possible impact to production.
4. Keep supplier informed of any specification change from EDCR, concessions etc.
5 Routinely carry out Benchmarking exercises to test and confirm purchases being made are achieving market price (or better).
6 a) Prepare supporting information for cost negotiation with suppliers, including usage information, competitive quotations and comparisons, engineering data/drawings, annual spend with supplier etc.
b) Provide relevant monthly reporting for Commodity spends, audits/meetings with suppliers.
7 Working with the Supply Chain Manager and Supplier to actively improve the vendor performance.
8 Participate in supplier negotiation for medium/low volume/cost items.
9 Where necessary manage supplier change/transition while ensuring continuity of supply is maintained.
Materials/Support
1. To assist and advise production on materials related issues including all aspects of material control, engineering change, and parts availability.
2. To ensure materials are supplied on time to schedule, to meet production requirements and within the agreed budget for inventory levels.
3. Keep all relevant Fourthshift records / information up to date, including:-
" Closing old orders
" Item master MRP / planning codes
" Issue control on existing orders.
4. Actively contribute to all Materials & Purchasing initiatives, including inventory reduction, inventory accuracy improvement and identification of cost saving opportunities.
5. To carry out any other duties as designated by the Supply Chain Manager.