Purchasing Coordinator

**Posting Period**
From March 08, 2023
to March 31, 2023

**Country or region**
United Kingdom

**Location**

Malvern, Worcestershire

**Business Unit**
Animal Nutrition

**Department**
Production / Operations

**Entry date**
As soon as possible

**Job Status**
Permanent - Full time

**Minimal required work experience**
5 years

**Minimal education level required**
College degree

**Work schedule**
37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Salary**
Based on experience

**Benefits**
Competitive social benefits

**Purchasing Coordinator / Buyer**:
**Main Functions**:
We are looking for a Purchasing Coordinator/Buyer to based at our Malvern, UK Facility and will report into the Production Planner.

KEY ROLE
- To manage the purchasing of all raw materials ,packaging materials and labels for fermentation and blending areas.
- Make decisions around supply chain management: fewer larger volume purchases versus small volume, more frequent purchases and the benefits of each approach.
- To devise efficient tools using Excel tables to aid procurement activities.
- To work closely with line manager, customer services, fermentation, blending/ packing and QA/QC functions to ensure adequate stocks of raw materials are maintained.
- Work closely with the Finance team on all invoicing matters.
- Work closely with Planning, Production Managers, Technical, Customer Services, QA and External UK Sales functions on all matters relating to specifications for raw materials and packaging.
- Set minimum stock levels and generate minimum stock level reports and assess purchasing requirements using usage and forecast data.
- Review non-moving / slow moving stock volumes and value. Report upon findings.
- Attend meetings with customer services, purchasing, fermentation ,packing functions to review and share details of raw material stock levels and key priorities.
- To set up and maintain supplier contracts and negotiate pricing based upon historic and forecast data.
- To be involved with New Production Development activities to source / recommended suppliers and suitable packaging.
- Participate in continual improvement activities to rationalise packaging types with cost reduction / securing supply chain being the focus.
- Liaise with other buyers within the Lallemand group of UK companies to explore opportunities to leverage group buying potential for certain raw materials.
- To visit various packaging trade shows and assessing improvement opportunities.
- Generate reports from core data to assist in trend analyses, cost saving decisions and efficiencies when requested.
- Attend various training courses organised by the Company.
- Compliance with company health, safety, environmental and quality systems.
- To fulfil other duties and responsibilities as may be reasonably required within the role.

**Technical skills**:
Required
- Excel and ERP systems
- Several year's experience in a purchasing role ideally within brewing, fermentation, chemical, food blending, pharma type sectors to ISO9001/BRC / FAMIqs / cGMP/ HACCP or equivalent quality standards. Other manufacturing sectors will be considered.
- Overall business / finance awareness and implications of cost changes to business profitability.
- Familiarity with both primary packaging ( foil sachets, plastic and paper based bags ) and external box packaging procurement.
- Extensive experience of supplier contract negotiation and pricing.
- Sound financial skills/ knowledge with material costs and associated invoicing.
- Concise report writing when required.
- Demonstratable experience of packaging simplification and costs savings.
- Qualification in a recognised purchasing qualification i.e. CIPS.

An asset

**Personal abilities**:
Required
- Communication skills.
- Team player.
- Self driven.
- Motivated.
- Continual improvement mindset.

**General criteria**:
Required
- Office base at the Malvern facility

**Organization**:
Lallemand is a privately held Canadian company founded in the late 19th century, which develops, produces, and markets microorganisms for various markets. The administrative offices of the parent company are in Montreal, Canada. Today, Lallemand employs more than 5,000 people working in more than 45 countries on 5 continents.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition is committed to optimizing animal performance and wellbeing with specific microbial product and service solutions. We develop, produce and market silage additives, probiotics, antioxidants and yeast derivatives for animal nutrition, as well as microbial solutions for animal environment. We serve all livestock markets: ruminant, swine, poultry, aquaculture as well as equine and companion animals. We like to define ourselves as a “field-led science supported” company. As such, our solutions are supported by a strong commitment to R&D and technical support with a team of experts in the field. Our solutions are marketed in over 80 countries around the world, through our own sales teams or local distributors.
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