Buyer

**Eaton Titchfield**

**Buyer**

This position is required to actively support the plant’s goals by deploying skills in the areas of supply chain management, that will lead to sustained improvements in performance across the plant; both financial and process driven.

The position requires the person to build strong relationships with our suppliers as well as be a good negotiator.

**_Essential Functions:_**
- Balances current and future demand requirements with supplier capabilities/capacities to ensure completion of customer requirements.
- Ensure schedules align with the demand pan
- Minimise any cost increase by working with the Commodity Management team to adhere to standard costs
- Expedites supplier material, where required, to meet shortfall between current plan and customer order requirements, including expediting, de-expediting or cancellations as required.
- Coordinates with Accounts Payable on billing and/or credit issues
- Arranges for or assists in the disposal of surplus material
- Work closely with SQE and to coordinate the return, rework, or exchange of defective materials
- Support and deliver cost reduction projects and improvement initiatives to achieve overall business objectives
- Analyzes data, including enterprise requirements planning information and prepares reports as needed to facilitate and recommend actions to ensure optimal delivery of supplier materials
- Supports operational tier reviews with cells.
- Required to work within the export compliance regulations.
- Support long term agreement negotiations with commodity manager.

**Other essential procurement activities as and when required**:

- Ensure best practices with regards to Health and Safety are adhered to
- Project Management - carry out the full end to end sourcing & supplier selection process. Conduct Supplier Risk Assessments, Capacity Studies, analyze quotations and costs breakdowns, follow the APQP process, Gate Reviews, Lessons Learned
- Identify and Initiate savings projects. Deliver cost reduction in line with agreed targets.
- Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships internally and externally to support the delivery of the Procurement’s objectives, ensuring colleagues throughout the organisation buy into and adhere to strategic sourcing.
- Working internally with colleagues throughout the organization up to Senior Management and Corporate level and externally with a range of suppliers internationally up to Managing Director Level.
- Negotiating with suppliers and build strong relationships to effectively manage the strategic sourcing/buying process and associated controls
- Deliver appropriate supplier agreements for all goods and services for given areas of responsibility to meet external spend targets, cost reduction targets and service & performance levels.
- Ensure the delivery performance of a range of suppliers ensuring that supplier's performance is monitored, and corrective action is taken with suppliers not meeting the performance targets.
- Ensure the quality performance of a range of suppliers ensuring that product is supplied fit for purpose and is supplied in line with the company's requirements.
- Ensure that all procurement activity conforms to best practice and Company ethics, principles, and processes.

**_
Qualifications:_**
- Preferably have some working knowledge of export control and ITAR regulations
- Ideally have recognised operational qualifications such as CIPS or recognised operational qualifications such as HNC in manufacturing, quality, or procurement.
- Excellent IT skills.
- Thorough knowledge/understanding of complex MRP systems

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