Buyer

3 weeks ago

Havant, United Kingdom Watson-Marlow Limited Full time

**Buyer (Technical)
**Location: Biopure - Havant (Hybrid)**
**Benefits: Enhanced Carer/Paternity Leave, Additional Holiday, EAP and more

**This role will focus on**:
As the PureSU Technical Buyer you will be responsible for managing spend categories and holding ultimate responsibility for the price, quality, and delivery of goods under that category. You will also be responsible for a variety of procurement activities including preparation of specifications, the bidding process for commodities and contracts, and preparation, renewal, and monitoring of commodity and service requirements contracts.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- You will develop and implement effective sourcing strategies to achieve excellent on time in full delivery performance to fulfil internal and external customer requirements
- Responsible for regular price negotiations with suppliers to ensure prices are competitive compared to the previous price paid, current agreements/contracts and the current market prices.
- Collaborate with the finance team to ensure payments are on time for purchased items.
- Work closely with Planning to ensure all materials are purchased according to the planned production schedule.
- Ensure the shelf-life of purchased materials is above the minimum shelf life required.
- Balance inventory levels with product usage rates to avoid over-stocking.
You will propose alternative sourcing plans where required materials are out of stock or have prohibitively long lead-times.
- Provide updates on sourcing status in relevant meetings/forums e.g daily stand-up meetings. This will include but is not limited to changes in delivery dates, and product pricing.
- Maintain a database of critical suppliers monitoring their performance and ensure we maintain close relationships with them.
- You will read and interpret Technical Drawings and follow up queries through to resolution.
- You will take a holistic category management approach to spend categories, being responsible for the number of suppliers used, price, delivery performance, quality and responsiveness.

**To be successful in this role, you will need**:

- You will have significant experience within commodity and supplier management within various categories at a buyer level
- Supply chain commercial experience
- If you have experience within manufacturing, Engineering, biopharma or life science industries, then this would be beneficial although not essential.
- Experience using MRP/ERP purchasing systems and processes. (If you have experience with Microsoft D365 then even better but again not essential as we can train you)
- Microsoft Excel for data analysis and processing - pivot tables and VLOOKUP's for example
- Experience of dealing direct with suppliers based within the UK and Europe

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