Buyer

The rewards and benefits on offer:

• A highly competitive Salary.
• Long term contract
• You will have the opportunity to work for one of the North East’s leading businesses.
• A challenging and diverse role.
• Great company culture
• April Start Dates
• Monday to Friday office hours.

Mtrec’s new client opportunity:

Mtrec recruitment are proudly representing our long standing, industry leading client, in their search for a highly skilled and talented Buyer. The role will be a long-term contract for the successful applicant and will an ideal fit for those with buying experience within the manufacturing or engineering industry. Apply now for an immediate response.

The job you will do:

• Investigate, evaluate, and introduce new suppliers.
• Action technical enquiries by providing price and availability to the Costing Team so that they can respond to requests for a quotation from customer / prospective customers
• Procure materials to meet sample and production requirements.
• Material must meet the customers specification, ensuring materials are purchased in accordance with business quality, cost, and delivery requirements.
• Ensure effective communication channels are used and relationships are built and maintained between Buyer and the supply base, as well as internally on site
• Ensure material booking in & out procedures are adhered to.
• Ensure all stock is subjected to regular PI counts in line with current procedure and sufficient to meet external audit requirements.
• Ensure accurate stock, WIP and finished goods levels are maintained.
• Ensure all suppliers reject material is processed through the MRP system and goods are prepared for return to the supplier, as necessary.
• Ensure stock adjustment procedures are maintained and controlled through authorized personnel.
• Ensure correct allocation of goods in and stores resources in line with requirements.
• Ensure that fittings are effectively and cost effectively procured and available to production when required.
• Maintain and improve the control mechanisms for parts used in production (including effective supplier reject management).
• Ensure that company inventory records (including parts used in production, WIP and Finished Goods) are of the highest integrity using perpetual inventory (PI) procedures.
• Gather in comparable quotes for other goods and services for the site.
• Ensure supplier purchase orders & schedules are issued in line with manufacturing and customer requirements (MRP or Kanban demand triggers).
• Try to anticipate supplier difficulties, taking appropriate action to prevent shortages.
• Ensure purchase records are updated and maintained correctly, keeping track of unplaced requisitions to prevent delays.
• Manage the contracts for Uniform, workwear, PPE, and welfare services such as sanitary bins, sharps disposal etc.
• Taking requests from personnel for replacement items, arranging repairs / replacement garments and in conjunction with Health and Safety, ensure suitable and sufficient PPE is ordered and stocks maintained.
• Control and reduce costs from defective suppliers, advising them immediately of discrepancies, ensuring the replacement of rejected items speedily.
• Raise schedules on specific suppliers and ensure necessary constituent parts are issued.
• Investigate and advise on possible sources of shortages.
• Assist all departments with queries, i.e. order numbers for advice notes, accounts queries.

About you:

• You will have some degree of engineering knowledge ideally.
• Ideally you will be CIPS Qualified, but this is not essential.
• Extensive experience in a similar role, ideally in the manufacturing / engineering industry
• Supplier appraisal skills
• Intermediate / advanced experience working within MRP systems.
• Experience of SAP
• Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Must be diplomatic, with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Adept at negotiating
• Must be prepared to work out of normal hours if required by the needs of the business, eg stock take may fall on a weekend.
• Maintain a good working relationship with all departments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills