Senior Buyer

Large manufacturing engineering business require a Senior Buyer. Applicants need to be comfortable with operational and strategic procurement tasks, within a production manufacturing environment and have previous MRP experience.

The Senior Buyer will join a team of Buyers and Senior Buyers reporting into a Procurement Manager. The Senior Buyer will work within a fast-paced manufacturing environment where driving suppliers against operational metrics such as OTD/OTIF is paramount, in order to meet production plans. Aside from these tactical duties, the Senior Buyer will get to support strategic initiatives around supply chain development and collaboration activities. The Senior Buyer will source across both, mechanical and electronic supply chains.

Specific duties of the Senior Buyer include:

Purchase Order Management activities via MRP
Day-to-Day management of suppliers against OTD/OTIF metrics to ensure continuity of supply
Supply market intelligence activities around the selection of new supply chain partners
Supplier / Subcontractor partnering - understand capacity, future capabilities, collaboration/innovation etc
Contribute to department cost saving targets and objectives

Senior Buyer applicants should meet the following criteria:

Experience in procurement, ideally as a Buyer, Senior Buyer or Strategic Buyer
Comfortable liaising with technical stakeholders across Engineering, Quality, Production etc.
Skilled in the use of an MRP or ERP system
Ability to balance tactical and strategic procurement tasks
Previous experience within a manufacturing or engineering business