Buyer- Manufacturing

4 weeks ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Aggreko, LLC Full time

Around the world, people, businesses, and countries are striving for a better future. A future that needs power and the right conditions to succeed. We’re the people who keep the lights on and control temperature. We are hiring immediately for a Buyer in our Manufacturing Procurement team
- a role that is critical in making sure our customers get the electricity, heating and cooling they need.

Why Aggreko? Here are some of the perks and rewards.
- A competitive salary and benefits package (including but not limited to pension plan, bonus scheme, and Life Assurance)
- Hybrid working
- Generous holiday entitlement, with option to ‘buy’ or ‘sell‘
- A focus on continued personal development
- Discounts & perks
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Paid time off work for volunteering in the community
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, which helps promote and support a healthy lifestyle

What you’ll do:

- This is a critical role within the Manufacturing Procurement Function. You will support the needs and demands of our key manufacturing sites (In-house and 3rd Party).
- You will be responsible for planning your categories and challenging pricing and lead times to deliver Manufacturing requirements.
- Working closely with planning and production to meet ever changing manufacturing needs, to ensure suppliers are driving to meet SLA and KPIs.
- You will always remaining curious and continually challenge and develop the supply chain to secure supply and streamline and where necessary bring on new suppliers to meet demand of current manufacturing and NPI requirements. By holding our suppliers responsible for delivery performance, you will develop plans where necessary for continuous improvement and performance management.
- In this role you will have close engagement with Global Procurement Category Teams, Engineering and New Product Development and requires to be a key influencer in this arena.

We’re experts, which means you’ll have the following skills and experience:

- You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills; and strive to deliver excellence though procurement practices and stakeholder engagement. You will have a track record of delivering added value to tight timelines as well as working efficiently and smart. Providing an enhanced customer service internally and externally with strong stakeholder engagement across all levels of an organisation.
- Ideally you will have a CIPS or Supply Chain qualification.
- Strong inventory management experience
- MRP Experience from a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- You will have strong analytical skills and knowledge of analytical tools
- Experience in a busy and dynamic procurement environment
- Solutions driven problem-solver

About Us

We are the people who use our big boxes to make a massive difference. We believe in the positive impact of power and the ability to control temperature. We believe what we do opens up opportunity and creates potential for individuals, communities, industries and societies over the world. We believe when we work together we can do anything. We believe in the power of our team. We are the people who keep the lights on. And we recruit the best talent, too.

Our four values help us get even better at what we do. It’s the Aggreko way of working - we call it Always Orange.

Always Orange means:
Being dynamic: We’re nimble and are always ready to react to an ever changing world.

Being expert: We know our stuff, we’re great under pressure and we thrive in our busy, fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. We use our experience to make a difference. We know how to challenge and we have the courage of our convictions.

Being together: We play for Team Aggreko and value the expertise of everyone around us. We’re accountable and we hold others to account.

Being innovative: We never miss an opportunity to learn, to look out, or to be better.

Aggreko is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment that allows each employee to be their best based upon their merit, talent and aspiration. We do not discriminate, and we abide by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

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