Operational Buyer/Procurement Assistant

Job Role: Operational Buyer/Procurement Assistant

Job Location: Poole

Contract Length: 3 months possible extension

Pay Rate: GBP15 per hour

An opportunity exists within our manufacturing Procurement team for a buyer to play a key role in our Manufacturing Operations. The successful applicant will continually seek to improve efficiency through the development of best practice procurement techniques.

Key Duties:

• Continuous supplier communication and relationship building to ensure on time supply of components
• Rationalise the supply base and manage supplier relationships to ensure contract compliance and achieve strengthened purchasing relationships with existing suppliers.
• Achieve costs savings in line with department targets
• Actively support the Commodity Managers with tactical and transactional requirements
• Utilise the commodity strategies in place and support development of new strategies with the Commodity Managers
• Identify opportunities to remove non value added costs/tasks within the procurement environment.
• Play an active and significant role in multi disciplined teams for the procurement of components for new projects.
• Must work well within an already established group of professionals
• Be responsible for a significant spend
• To work with internal stakeholders
• Co-ordinate, monitor and report upon supplier performance
• Ensuring Pro-active supplier order book management of the team in support of our performance metrics
• Prepare, issue and review supplier RFQ's, recommending preferred options on complex design and build products, following through to release of purchase Order
• Negotiate the purchase of materials and equipment required by the company ensuring that these meet specifications and can be delivered at the correct time at the most favourable prices
• Monitor purchase orders to ensure that these are modified to meet changes in requirements
• Management supplier open order, expedite where required and ensure on time delivery to planned requirements is met
• Management of the Automated expediting process to cover requirements for all operational needs within ITS

Essential Requirements:

• CIPS qualified/part qualified.
• 2 years' experience within a procurement environment
• Must be self-motivated with a flexible approach
• Ability to prioritise and balance the teams workload
• Demonstrate good commercial acumen and understand purchasing principles
• Ability to negotiate and influence to build supplier partnerships
• Commercial awareness with a sense of organisational sensitivity regarding information security
• Innovative, proven ability to introduce improvements and achieve cost reductions
• Fluent communications skills, both verbal and written, along with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly numerate and PC literate
• Experience of MRP/ERP system and Microsoft Excel

Desirable Requirements:

• A Level/HNC or higher in a relevant qualification, eg Business Studies,
• Previous experience within a complex manufacturing processing environment
• Knowledge of sales, design and engineering processes