Lead Buyer

Job Title: Lead Buyer
Location: Birkenhead
Duration: Permanent

**Salary**: Circa 40k (negotiable )
Our Engineering client based in Birkenhead have a permanent vacancy for a Lead Buyer, to lead the purchasing team on cost reduction, supplier selection, contract implementation and supplier management.
Key Duties & Tasks:

- To manage a portfolio of suppliers with the aim of ensuring QCD performance
- Build, follow-up and monitor local sourcing action plans
- To protect the supply chain by ensuring that suppliers have the capacity to supply quality product within acceptable lead times
- Implement strategies to guarantee the best "Total Cost of Ownership"
- Take the lead in the Supplier Reduction Roadmap for production suppliers
- Support the reporting process into the company
- Take the lead in improving the performance of the worst performing suppliers
- Ensure that the Purchasing budgets key objectives are implemented, tracked and successfully completed
- Set-up and support the implementation of Supply Frame Agreements with strategic suppliers on production parts
- Set-up item/supplier relationships for non-strategic items, i.e. unpredictable, irregular items
- Identify suppliers to implement Consignment Stock, Kanban and VSM
- Manage all external suppliers in the Vendor List via PRISM and identify potential new suppliers
- Volume analysis of consumed stock to ensure price breaks are set in appropriate places
- Lead supplier review meetings and cost reduction teams
- Visit supplier premises as required to ensure goals and objectives are achieved
- Take the lead in ensuring supplier selection is robust and justified
- Liaise with other departments and colleagues across the UK in order to meet individual and team objectives
- Ensure all company procurement procedures are followed
- Take the lead on the Purchasing section of the company Management System and Internal Control to ensure quarterly targets are met
- To carry out any other reasonable duty or task as required in pursuit of company goals and objectives

Qualifications & skills:

- CIPS qualified
- People management
- Business acumen Numerate
- Commercially/legally aware
- Good understanding of Health and Safety legislation.
- IT literate
- Ability to efficiently organise workload.
- Ability to work autonomously or as part of a team
- Strong negotiation skills
- Contract Management skills
- Performance orientated
- Able to read and understand technical drawings

Other requirements:

- Current driving licence.
- Able to attend meetings out of normal office hours and travel to other company sites, plus supplier sites
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