Senior Procurement Specialist

3 weeks ago


Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom Coherent Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Senior Buyer to join our Purchasing team at Coherent Scotland. Reporting to the Purchasing Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for administering and managing all aspects of purchasing, including running MRP summary reports, raising purchase orders, managing purchase requisitions, quotations, and supplier performance reports.

Key Responsibilities

  • Run MRP summary reports and raise purchase orders to ensure timely delivery of components for production, engineering, and NPI projects.
  • Highlight and action any shortages or potential shortages as they occur.
  • Manage delivery schedules and order books for components to acquire inventory in a cost-effective and timely manner.
  • Calculate and distribute demand forecasts to the supply base.
  • Compile supplier performance reports and manage the supplier base, including negotiating favourable pricing arrangements, lead-time reductions, and financial liability.
  • Ensure suppliers adhere to SLA conditions and terms.
  • Interact closely with suppliers and QA to resolve quality issues.
  • Coordinate with engineering departments on New Product Introductions to ensure supply base and operations requirements are met.
  • Ensure new suppliers are appraised through relevant QA/ISO evaluation systems prior to inclusion on Coherent Corp.'s AVL/ASL – AGILE.
  • Manage procurement business system data input and integrity.
  • Manage item attributes, particularly to facilitate Coherent Corp.'s Kanban strategy.
  • Participate in maximizing the procurement team's changes, part parameters, quote table maintenance, supplier database information, error report analysis, and part number/supplier code information.
  • Perform cost analysis and volume planning for major commodities, such as materials, components, equipment, and services.
  • Deliver on Key Performance Measures, including supplier OTD, inventory targets, and SOX Compliance.
  • Take ownership and manage key local suppliers.
  • Provide support to Strategic Sourcing Managers.


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