Buyer

9 months ago


Coventry, United Kingdom Unipart Powertrain Applications Full time

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**Job Purpose**:
The Buyer is responsible for supporting the team with the development and implementation of their commodity/supply chain strategy throughout UPA. This role will provide support with the complete range of strategic and new product introduction sourcing activities, including purchase goods, materials and services to ensure that the company operational needs are met, taking into account price, quality and delivery and to ensure continuity of supply.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets
- Support other relevant departments as required
- Negotiate contracts, improve prices and terms of business with suppliers and investigate opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and purchasing best practice tools and methods
- Facilitate between suppliers and other UPA departments on new projects and activities
- Monitor and advise on any issues which present risk or opportunity to the organisation
- Provide supplier spend analysis and costs for new and existing activities
- Prepare reports and updates as required
- Work closely with others in the purchasing function and review opportunities for continuous improvement and business improvements
- Raise and manage business system data such as new supplier set up, contracts, purchase orders etc.
- Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships in a professional and consistent manner
- Compile departmental KPI data and supplier performance to enable evaluation
- Assess and evaluate suppliers and support performance reviews
- Fully embrace the tools and techniques utilised through the Unipart Way
- Adhere to any health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of self, staff and visitors
- All employees have a duty of care to follow / adhere to all Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) procedures, processes and challenge unsafe acts & behaviours.

**Your Experience & Skills**:

- Able to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with staff, stakeholders and suppliers
- Good communication, negotiation, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Analytical and numerically astute
- Strong demonstrated problem solving mentality
- Able to manage time effectively, prioritise tasks and achieve targets
- Commercial and financial awareness with an understanding of how failure can impact production, manufacture and customer order fulfilment
- Able to work well under pressure and handle emergency and stressful situations
- Keen attention to detail and accuracy
- Previous experience of working in a purchasing team preferably within a manufacturing engineering environment
- Experience of working closely with suppliers
- Able to add value, reduce costs and input to business improvements
- An understanding of technical engineering drawings
- Proactive with an ability to seek out commercial opportunities and to secure tangible results for the business
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise workload in a fast paced environment
- Good MS Office skills, particularly Excel as well as Google Sheets
- Possess the ability to exercise sound judgement and risk management in high pressure environment
- Results orientated, enthusiastic, self-motivated and driven purchasing professional with a bias for action/ability to get results, a self-starter with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Ability to positively influence others, a creative thinker, team player
- Assertive, resilient and welcomes change
- Demonstrable integrity, credibility, openness and honesty


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