Purchasing Specialist

2 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom E3 Recruitment Full time

Purchasing Specialist - FTC 12 months (Potential to go permanent upon completion) - Leeds, West Yorkshire

A prestigious heavy engineering company based in Leeds West Yorkshire are looking to recruit a Purchasing Specialist for a 12 months contract commencing immediately.

The successful Purchasing Specialist with work collaboratively with the buyers in the implementation of strategic sourcing initiatives and understand strategies for assigned segments or commodities and proactively drive initiatives to meet sourcing objectives.

Responsibilities of the Purchasing Specialist:

- Negotiate the lowest possible cost for the commodity balanced against the optimum quality and schedule needs.
- Assure that the commodity is delivered on schedule at the negotiated price and meets the quality standards of the company.
- Responsible for expediting of purchase orders, maintaining relationships with the vendors, maintaining records/reports and history files for vendors, and sourcing alternate vendors for possible cost savings and/or delivery as needed.
- Review vendor classifications to ensure the vendor meets the specified requirements of the purchase order.
- Ensure purchase orders are confirmed in a timely manner per Supply Chain guidelines.
- Manage and maintain blocked invoice reporting through MRBR and ensure GR/IR balance is being maintained and managed.
- Monitor PPV reports for variances and take corrective actions as needed.
- Review the delivery performance and quality performance of suppliers and action as needed.
- Manage supplier on-time delivery by means of evaluating data for accuracy of late versus on-time reporting.
- Responsible for exception message management reporting and execution to ensure exception messages are actioned in a timely manner.

Competencies required from the successful Purchasing Specialist:

- Proficient experience with Microsoft Excel
- Bachelor’s Degree or 3-5 years of experience in purchasing or related field

For further information around this exciting FTC Purchasing Specialist please do not hesitate to contact Matthew Lorryman on 07510372641 or click the “apply” button.



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