Senior Buyer Machined Parts

2 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Elevation Recruitment Group Full time

A leading engineering manufacturer, based in Leeds have a new position for a procurement professional to join their existing team as a Senior Buyer.
The role is responsible for leading and managing all purchasing related activity for assigned commodities and services.
**Duties**:

- Create and implement category sourcing strategies utilising Category Management process
- Manage all commercial aspects of sourcing - spend analysis, tendering and business award
- Source and evaluate new products to promote cost savings and efficiencies
- Negotiate, implement and maintain supplier framework agreements
- Undertake Supplier performance reviews as deemed necessary in order to maintain Supplier performance levels for Quality, Cost, Delivery
- Responsible for driving and implementing Supplier Development programmes for category preferred Suppliers
- Drive cost reduction, VAVE activity and report all cost saving activity against agreed targets
- Supply Chain lead and support to cross divisional projects and initiatives
- Responsible for the timely conversion of requisitions to purchase orders through to purchase order placement
- Obtain written confirmation of agreed delivery dates by means of securing formal purchase order acknowledgements
- Responsibility to ensure that both Materials & Services are delivered to site in line with the delivery dates agreed between with supplier
- Timely updating of the SAP system, identifying agreed delivery dates from all materials and to take proactive steps to mitigate and recovery any potential impacts to planned production requirements
- Management of any potential delivery shortages so that effective countermeasures can be jointly agreed and implemented in a timely manner
- Proactive approach to visit Suppliers as deemed necessary in order to audit "Supplier Delivery Trackers" against planned production schedules to track Plan Vs. Actual
- Undertake additional duties as reasonably deemed necessary in support of on-going business requirements
- Management of supplier stock and stock takes for vendors
- Ensure all work personally undertaken within WVC is carried out in compliance with current H&S rules and WVC safety systems, and is in line with the requirements of the WVC duty of care document
- Flexibility to support multiple commodity areas as required
- Requirement to cover additional hours to support business demands
Measurements:

- Supplier OTD
- Specified savings targets
- MRP Exceptions
- Root Cause analysis of OTD failure by supplier with remedial action plans
- Cost Savings and Cost Down targets (to be agreed for each project)
Education and/or Experience:

- Excellent commercial acumen with strategic focus
- Relationship management skills
- Customer focused / Service & results orientated
- Strong teamwork ethic
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent influencing and persuasion skills
- Ability to act independently
- Proven experience of category buying within a Engineering/Technical manufacturing environment, including Low Cost and Best Cost sourcing
- Knowledge of Purchasing Workflow/SRM systems a distinct advantage
- Familiar with problem solving tools and techniques, problem resolution and driving the overall countermeasure proposal process
- Experience working across numerous projects and working closely with an international supply base and multiple cultures

**Salary**:

- £45,000
- Bonus, Pension, Holiday, Flexible Benefits
Senior Buyer
Halifax, Bradford, Shipley, Colne, Keighley, Huddersfield, Burnley, Hull, York, Leeds, Wakefield, Harrogate, Barnsley, Sheffield, Thirsk
Elevation Recruitment Group's Procurement and Supply Chain division work with a vast range of businesses across Yorkshire and Humberside, Lincolnshire and East Midlands regions.

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