Senior Buyer

3 days ago


West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Macildowie Recruitment and Retention Full time

Job Title**:Senior Buyer**

Location: Shipley

**Salary**: £40,000 - £45,000

An exciting opportunity with large multi-national organisation, based in Shipley are looking for an experienced Senior Buyer to join their Purchasing team. This role is progressive and provides an abundance of support. Also, they are growing exponentially,with a turnover over £50 million. Due to their growth they are now looking to bring in a Senior Buyer

**The role**

You will have responsibility for ensuring that we manage supplier relationships within their current supply chain and take the lead to introduce new suppliers who can give them a cost-advantage, responsive, flexible service. The emphasis of this role willbe focused on Capital expenditure on commercial activity rather than day to day expediting.

The Senior Buyer has responsibility for a significant spend on a Purchase Commodity, to help achieve the annual cost down targets and mentor a small team of individuals to help pass on experience and help develop the department in our goal of continuousimprovement.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Using a category management approach, review of production and non-production expenditure and develop sourcing strategies that align to the business goals.
- Project manage the migration of spends for the given commodities into the remit of the Purchasing department where they do not exist today.
- Design and implement supplier rationalisation based upon the category strategy proposed and approved.
- Manage contracts with core suppliers in each category.
- Negotiate improved prices and terms of business with key suppliers.
- Work with internal stakeholders on NPI, capital equipment & bespoke projects to ensure purchasing input from the project start.
- Liaise with European/Global plants to identify leverage opportunities.

**Key Skills**
- Strong negotiation skills, contract management knowledge and experience understanding cost makeup.
- Strong relationship builder with ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organisation as well as with external suppliers.
- Drive to achieve best value and ongoing cost reduction.
- Able to achieve senior management expectations whilst delivering at operational level.
- Well-developed communication, negotiation and persuasion skills
- Significant experience and be from a 1st tier or OEM automotive, engineering, or general manufacturing background.
- A proven record of purchasing non-production materials and commodities.

**Working hours/Benefits**

8:30 - 5:00 Mon - Thurs

8:30 - 1:30 Fri

Private Medical Insurance

Flexi-time of 30 minutes at either side of the core hours are available Mon - Thurs.

Excellent pension scheme and generous company benefits, plus free on-site parking.


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