Junior Buyer

3 months ago

East Grinstead, United Kingdom Thermo Fisher Scientific Full time

When you’re part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do challenging work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Working as part of our Microbiology Division (MBD), within the Specialty Diagnostics Group, you’ll play an active part in helping us to achieve our mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. The Microbiology Division discovers microbiological solutions for the diagnosis of infectious disease and detection of bacterial contamination. We serve public health, clinical laboratories, food companies, environmental screening and pharmaceutical laboratories with a portfolio of products that include culture media, antimicrobial susceptibility testing solutions and market-leading molecular solutions for food safety testing.

Title: Junior Buyer

Location: East Grinstead

**Position Summary**:
The buyer will be responsible for driving the daily order management process for a subset of our raw material products purchased by our 5 main Microbiology sites, located in Basingstoke (UK), Wesel (GER), Dartford (UK), East Grinstead (UK) and Perth (UK). The role begins with our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) purchasing requisition system, through the purchasing order generation and through to invoicing clearance. The challenge of the role will be to ensure that all raw material purchased are delivered on time, and in the right quantity whilst maximizing our inventory. With the support of the wider Procurement team, the buyer will also collaborate with and build strong supplier relationships with our key suppliers.

**Responsibilities**:

- Raise purchase orders in the company ERP system and send them to our suppliers based on our material requirement planning (MRP)
- Responsible for obtaining suppliers order acknowledgements for 100% of purchase orders raised and update our system accordingly
- Optimize the weekly procurement plan by running exception message reports and adjusting the order book with suppliers accordingly
- Own the communication of the procurement plan and forecast to selected Class A+ suppliers (critical suppliers)
- Support supplier business reviews with Class A+ suppliers to improve our supplier relationship, and implement action plans when recurrent supply issue occurs
- Regularly monitor material expiry and proactively work to reduce potential scrap to a minimum by bringing solutions to the business
- Escalate through daily Tier meetings any issues that cannot be solved directly, and ensure to set up a clear problem statement with initial solutions identified and actioned prior to any escalation
- Ensure to keep inventory to its optimal value to meet the division target
- Accurately maintain our supplier or broker documentation in our ERP for each order
- Solve invoice price mismatches with the supplier to ensure 100% alignment between our master data and supplier
- Ensure to always meet process, regulatory, health and safety and quality compliance obligations
- Proactively work to identify areas for improvement across the team and drive project execution plans

**Experience, skills & abilities required**:

- Consistently demonstrates our 4i Values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation & Involvement
- Has a working knowledge of SAP
- Experience in a manufacturing or complex operations environment
- Puts the Customer First
- Thinks and acts with a customer-centric mindset to deliver exceptional customer experience
- Prioritizes customer requirements and is dedicated to meeting or exceeding customer expectations
- Continuously improves internal processes to create value for the customer
- Develops and maintains successful customer relationships (internal and/or external)
- Owns Their Results
- Takes personal accountability for decisions and actions, and always exercises good judgement
- Does not make excuses for poor performance, is open about what is not working and what needs to be done to fix it
- Takes personal ownership for adherence to safety, compliance, quality, and cyber security
- Consistently applies good judgement and maintains commitment to Thermo Fisher Scientific ethics and values
- Finds a Better Way Every Day
- Is intellectually curious and embraces continuous improvement, challenging the status quo. Introduces and proactively seeks out new ideas and solutions to strengthen performance
- Role model the use of Practical Process Improvement (PPI) to improve processes
- Holds self and others accountable to build PPI capability and instill a continuous improvement culture
- Ensures best practices and lessons learned are adopted

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 100,000+ extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Joi

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