Buyer

4 weeks ago


Aylesbury, United Kingdom Kingspan Water and Energy Full time

**Scope of Role**

**Key Responsibilities**
- **Supplier management** - Manage and develop existing suppliers in defined spend areas and be actively involved in supplier negotiations.
- **Cost savings** - Identify and deliver year on year cost down opportunities within the defined category, ensuring best value for money at all times.
- **Purchasing efficiencies** - Work closely with the Operations Department to ensure optimum quality, prices and delivery for defined parts to support minimising inventory.
- **Cross functional project teams** - Actively represent procurement on cross functional project teams, such as improvement projects and NPI.
- **Supplier rationalisation** - Deliver an optimal supply chain that provides product to the business at the required level of quality, price and terms.
- **Risk mitigation** - Identify, control and manage risk within defined categories to ensure any risk has been mitigated and ensure full compliance to Group standards.
- **New components and suppliers** - Responsible for sourcing and introduction of new components and suppliers in line with company procedures.
- **Interaction** - Work with buyers in other sites to capitalise on shared learnings.
- **Tendering** - Lead and carry out RFQs/ Tenders to support supplier rationalisation, NPI and new second sourcing strategies.
- **Planet passionate** - Play a leading role in reduction of embedded carbon within the supply chain

**Person Specification**

**Essential**
- 3-5 years successful experience in a similar role and level within a manufacturing environment, with knowledge and experience of working with an ERP system
- Experience in leading and carrying out tenders/ RFQs
- Experience of introducing new suppliers/ components
- Commodity management experience
- Experience of implementing inventory strategies
- Advanced working knowledge and experience of Excel (pivot tables & V lookups etc)
- Able to travel as required - full, unendorsed Driving Licence
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise own workload. Developed problem solving skills, including the ability to manage conflicting work demands.
- Capacity to work independently with limited supervision.
- Be able to undertake a continuous review of procedures to achieve and maintain best practice
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to liaise and advise stakeholders at all levels
- Adaptable and flexible and able to work as part of a team
- Able to work under pressure and meet short deadlines.
- Must be very ‘hands on’ with Can do attitude

**Desirable**
- CIPS qualified or working towards
- Degree level qualified
- Experience of project management
- Experience of auditing suppliers
- Experience in managing metal, plastic and electrical components

**Compliance**
- Cooperating with and support the compliance management system and encouraging personnel to do the same
- Developing personnel awareness of product compliance obligations
- Actively participate in corrective actions from concerns or internal audits.

**Salary**: £35,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 24/08/2023


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