Assistant Buyer

We are very excited to be recruiting an Assistant Buyer to support a Global company based in Halesowen. If you are doing some buying at the moment or expediting or procuring, we would love to hear from you
The main objective of the role will be:
To work as part of a small team, responsible for securing the supply of parts, in a timely and cost-efficient manner, to satisfy both Customer Service and specified Inventory Levels.
Providing the main interface between the client and the Supply Base.
To establish a culture of continuous improvement as part of a global team, whose objective is to maintain our client as one of the market leaders in MRO Supply Chain Management.
The main duties will be:

- Establish professional rapport with the Supply Base as well as Internal and External customers.
- Be responsible for day-to-day management of all supplier accounts assigned to you and establish regular and standardised reporting mechanisms and procedures, internally and externally with the supply base or customer as required.
- Assume total responsibility for the maintenance and updating of all supply chain data and data integrity on all Entec IT systems for all accounts, suppliers or projects assigned to you.
- To identify alternative sources of supply to alleviate short term tactical supply issues and manages supply of these parts encompassing technical and quality requirements as necessary
- Operate an efficient process for the administration and sourcing of customer ad-hoc requirements at the best commercial terms.
- To obtain and update delivery promise information to provide accurate delivery data to the customer at all times
- Contribute towards both team and individual operational objectives and resultant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- To create and distribute Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across your allocated supply base.
- Introduce cost saving or process improvement solutions that show demonstrable benefits to established KPI's such as cost, quality and delivery adherence.
- High level of computer literacy
- Can demonstrate negotiation skills
- Can demonstrate commercial awareness in product sourcing
- Well-presented and professional

We also offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, we are a thriving and busy purchasing team and we want to bring someone on to develop their purchasing skills and help them become a fully-fledged buyer.