Senior Buyer

**Senior Buyer**

**Eaton Wimborne - UK**

**Do you want to work for a global company where promoting gender equality is central to **our vision of creating a truly diverse and inclusive business? Where everyone matters, and everyone belongs?**

Eaton have an exciting opportunity for a **Senior Buyer **role.

**Your main responsibilities**:

- Managing the end to end supply chain relationship with a specified group of vendors to ensure the best possible quality, cost, delivery and overall supplier reliability for the Business Unit
- Undertake sourcing/selection processes in line with policy for allocated work packages
- Undertake supplier relationship management tasking for allocated supply base i.e. business reviews, tactical improvement initiatives, supplier development etc.
- Work with buyers to ensure all purchase orders are issued IAW MRP demand
- Ensure all MRP exception message are executed in line with requirements
- Review MRP requirements to ensure component deliveries are scheduled in line with production requirements
- Manage the communication of engineering changes and schedule changes
- Work with the Procurement Commercial team to ensure supplier contracts and business agreements are in place and effective
- Monitor delivery status of scheduled receipts to ensure on time delivery to need
- Undertake commodity analysis to develop new and alternative sources of supply
- Create and maintain both market and supplier profiles for all nominated suppliers within the commodity
- Continually monitor, evaluate and report on the performance of suppliers
- Manage the QCD performance of allocated vendors
- Manage day to day procurement activities including internal/ vendor communications, schedule, delivery and commercial terms including any price variation
- Deploy responsible supply chain management practices in accordance with company policy including risk registers, heat maps and any required corrective actions.
- Act as an effective point of escalation / problem resolution for supplier delivery or commercial issues

**Qualifications**:
**Your essential skills we are looking for**:

- 5 years experience working in a supply chain organization. Previous experience as a senior buyer or Procurement Manager within a technology company (ideally electrical/electronics/aerospace)
- Bachelor degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain or related field
- Demonstrable experience of influencing and negotiating tactical, strategic and commercial activities
- Supplier relationship management
- Technical knowledge of commodity management
- Able to work to financial and time sensitive constraints
- MCIPs or APICS certification preferred

**What we offer to you**:

- **Competitive compensation and benefits package**:

- **Permanent contract in a fast-growing global company**:

- **Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team**:

- **We make ethics and culture matter** - You will enjoy working in supportive and collaborative workplace where ethics and safety are in our DNA
- **We make your perspectives matter** - Different points of view are what drive innovation and collaboration, and at Eaton, innovation begins with top-to-bottom diversity. Our senior leadership is made up of individuals from diverse groups to help create an environment where employees feel represented and heard at every level.
- **We make your aspirations matter** - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
- **We make your growth matter** - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
- **We make your contributions mat**ter** - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the environment through power management technologies.
- **We make your wellbeing matter** - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it’s about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen

**Our recent awards**:

- FORTUNE’s 2021 World’s Most Admired Companies list
- One of the World's Most Ethical Companies 2021 by Ethisphere
- Top 50 Employers List 2020 by Woman Engineer Magazine
- Best Place to work for LGBTQ Equality 2020 by Human Rights Campaign
- Named to 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2020 list for 13th consecutive year by 3BL Media
- 100 Best Corporate Citizens list for 11th consecutive year by Corporate Responsibility

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Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewabl