Buyer

**Buyer and Commercial Officer**

**£35,000- £45,000 DOE**

**NG15**

**Hours of work: Monday to Friday 37.5 hours per week, 8:00am - 16:15pm (hybrid: 1 day a week remote working)**

**Purpose**:
This role focuses on buyer responsibilities, whilst supporting the commercial contracts for both customer and supplier relationships as required. It will involve managing end to end procurement cycle for a portfolio of suppliers, drive customers status calls and negotiate cost effective terms to achieve business goals. It will balance both operational and strategic demands of the business, maintaining involvement in the day to day operational requirement of the procurement team.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Work closely with internal stakeholders and supply chain to identify cost reduction and increased efficiency opportunities in line with company and purchasing strategy
- Run material planning program in ERP system and identify purchase orders required to be issued to suppliers, monitoring stock levels for review
- Attend regular production and technical review meetings to provide commercial input and provide assistance as required
- Work with Procurement Management to ensure departmental compliance with internal quality procedures, as well as customer and industry procedural requirements
- Work closely with NPI and Projects teams to ensure that a Purchasing perspective is built into supplier selection ensuring requirements are meet and ability to meet timeframe required.
- Actively contribute to monthly Purchasing Board meetings, presenting KPI updates and discussing Purchasing performance with company Senior Management Team
- Negotiate prices and contract terms for stock items
- Responding to customer RFQs, providing input into the costing process.
- Negotiation to achieve an agreement on batch quantities/ economic order quantities required for effective processing.
- Manage internal customer escalation and complaints taking ownership to ensure stakeholder management and effective resolution is reached.
- Researching, sourcing, selecting, and purchasing quality products and materials
- Building relationships with suppliers and negotiating with them for the best price, quantities, and delivery timescales
- Manage customer commercial work

**Required Skills & Attributes**
- Relevant qualification (bachelors degree, CIPS professional qualification) or relevant experience
- 3+ years of experience in procurement or purchasing
- Excellent communication skills, able to confidently communicate with all levels across the business and with external suppliers
- Experience effectively negotiating with both suppliers and customers
- Proven experience managing complex problems and proactively resolve issues with creative solutions
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Intermediate Excel skills

**Desirable**
- Experience working in a manufacturing or engineering environment
- Proven record of implementing cost saving and efficiency impro
- Previous experience negotiating multiyear contracts with suppliers
- Experience developing and implementing commodity strategies
- Experience using Infor Syteline or other ERP/MRPII systems
- Experience using Power BI

**Benefits**:

- Private health care scheme
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Bike to work scheme
- Long service rewards including enhanced Holiday entitlement
- Free on
- site parking with electric vehicle charging points
- Refer a friend reward scheme
- Day off work for your birthday
- Performance related bonus scheme
- Paid Professional Membership
- Life Assurance after 2 years of service
- Access to a variety of offers and discounts

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: £35,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company car
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking

Flexible Language Requirement:

- English not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Nottingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Purchasing: 2 years (required)

Work Location: In person