Commodity Procurement Specialist

3 days ago


Ballymena, United Kingdom Wrightbus Full time
Job Title: Commodity Buyer

Wrightbus is seeking a skilled Commodity Buyer to join our Strategic Purchasing team. As a key member of our procurement team, you will be responsible for selecting suppliers who can provide materials at the optimal acquisition cost while maintaining quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Maintain the material cost on the Bill of Materials for all products within the commodities you are responsible for, ensuring costs are less than the current sales quotation per contract.
  • Issue requests for quotation (RFQ's) for any new parts added to the Bill of Materials within the allotted components.
  • Populate Sage System with the price, lead-time, and supplier details as necessary.
  • Manage the engineering process, purchasing new parts, and ensuring suppliers are supplying to the correct revisions of drawings.
  • Liaise with suppliers on delivery key performance indicators, such as shortages, quality, and invoice queries.
  • Contribute to achieving departmental goals and objectives, including supplier reduction and cost reductions.
  • Initiate supplier agreements and see them through to implementation.
  • Contribute to New Product Introduction projects.
  • Source new suppliers for items within the allocated commodities.
  • Discuss with suppliers to achieve optimum batch sizes and reduce costs.
  • Analyze the cost of manufacture of parts, considering raw materials, labor costs, and machining costs to ensure value for money from the subcontracting supply base.
  • Compare drawings of new parts with existing parts to ensure cost increases or decreases are justified.
  • Recover money owed from suppliers for non-performance and warranty claims.

Requirements:

  • Undertake all duties in line with General Data Protection and maintain utmost confidentiality.
  • Ensure work is completed to meet the requirements of the ISO 9001 standard.
  • Treat those with whom you come into contact in a courteous and respectful manner, in accordance with the Dignity at Work Procedure.
  • Adhere to and promote the Equal Opportunities Policy throughout the course of your employment.
  • Maintain high standards of personal accountability.
  • Follow the training received when using any work items Wrightbus has provided.
  • Co-operate with others on health and safety and not interfere with or misuse anything provided for their health, safety, or welfare.
  • Take care of your own health and safety and that of people who may be affected by what you do (or do not do).
  • Comply with the no smoking policy.

About Wrightbus:

Wrightbus is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. We are a company that values diversity and inclusion, and we are looking for talented individuals who share our values.



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