Senior Procurement Specialist
24 hours ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Buyer to join our team at Recra Consulting. As a Senior Buyer, you will be responsible for managing the procurement process, identifying potential suppliers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring timely delivery of goods.
Key Responsibilities- Act as a point of contact between the company and suppliers, identifying potential suppliers based on project requirements.
- Negotiate contracts, terms, and deadlines with vendors and suppliers.
- Manage the procurement process to ensure goods delivery in a timely manner.
- Build long-term and stable partnership relationships with key suppliers to maintain continuity of supply, reduce procurement costs, and obtain competitive advantage.
- Analyse procurement demand and the market to achieve objectives of procurement cost control and lower general cost of procurement according to business strategies.
- Identify risks from the evolving procurement environment and implement risk mitigation plans to maintain consistent supply levels.
- Organise communication with suppliers periodically to build durable relationships.
- Maintain a database of components, determine stock levels in distribution, and monitor availability of components and stock longevity.
- Organise periodic supplier audits and evaluation to ensure continuation of suitable suppliers on the approved suppliers register.
- Gather and analyse research material on markets and clients' information for the sourcing of potential suppliers to ensure validity of procurement strategies.
- Develop strategies to strengthen the quality of the organisation's relationship with the supply base by identifying opportunities to continuously improve the effectiveness of communications and supplier relationship building activities in association with ISO9001/IATF 16949 requirements.
- Promote and encourage cross-functional participation from all areas of the Sales, Engineering, Production, Finance, and Quality Team.
- Actively manage sourcing activities relating to business models, via management of RFQ, key sourcing processes, and quotation analysis/negotiation.
- Devise and agree benchmarks and maintain a strong awareness through the investigation of new supply markets and assessing suppliers' capability.
- Ensure the quality of procured items and address problems when they arise using quality problem-solving techniques such as 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone, etc.
- Compile and maintain purchase records, supplier databases, and procurement contracts.
- Manage suppliers' KPIs.
- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.
- Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand.
- Conduct business review meetings with key stakeholders to assess risk, review future strategies, and identify potential cost-down and improvement opportunities.
- Advise senior management and improve the procurement process.
- Strong expertise in Engineering Procurement.
- Able to benchmark market pricing and negotiate revised terms with the supplier base accordingly.
- Familiarity with internal MRP systems.
- Hard working spirit, able to deliver to tight deadlines and workplace pressures.
- Results-oriented.
- Proactive, can-do work attitude.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Able to be a credible ambassador for the team.
- Strong office system skills (Office, Excel, PowerPoint, etc).
- Good understanding of ISO9001 systems in relation to the Purchasing and Supply function, ideally IATF 16949.
- Ability to analyse large quantities of data and produce subsequent reports from this data.
- Free on-site parking.
- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days a year plus public holiday.
- Bonus scheme available.
- Overtime available.
- Close proximity to local shops.
We are committed to fully understanding the in's and out's of a business, finding out why people love working there, and the type of people that will nourish in their environment. Recra have a strong ethical approach to recruitment and really engage with candidates and clients to ensure a congenial connection.
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