Senior Buyer

7 days ago

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Kelly Services Full time

**Senior Buyer** **Newcastle-Upon-Tyne** **Permanent** **£32,000 - £37,000** Kelly Services have an immediate permanent vacancy for an experienced Senior Buyer. We are keen to speak with talented individuals. Our client has expanded to offer cost-effective, advanced metal solutions to Europe's Space, Aviation and Defence markets. The business's many spin forming and press forming assets are supported by new manufacturing cells and expansive fabrication and assemblycapabilities that offer turnkey solutions to a diverse set of international customers. We are recruiting for a Senior Buyer within their site in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. This role is working 38.5 hours between the hours of 08:30 - 17:00, Monday to Thursday and 08:30 - 13:00 on Friday. **The role**: The Senior Buyer leads the purchasing of all material to meet production schedules and customer requirements. The position oversees all procurement, shipping, receiving and inventory control function. The Senior Buyer works closely with shipping and receivingpersonnel, material handlers and transportation providers. - Manage activities related to operational purchasing, material requirements planning, shipping, and receiving. - Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors such as product cost and quality. - Implement new or improved supply chain processes to increase efficiency or performance. - Research and evaluate suppliers based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier's reputation and history. - Review unacceptable goods/services with outside vendors. Monitor shipments to ensure that goods arrive on time and resolve problems related to undelivered goods or other shipment errors. - Lead efforts to establish proper stocking plans per long term agreements and optimisation of "runners, repeaters, and strangers" - Drive efforts to continuously review and improve inventory accuracy and ensure inventory objectives are met. - Develop and implement plans to drive inventory turns and days on hand to meet/exceed budgeted targets. Effectively manage excess and obsolete inventories. - Advise on production schedules by collaborating with Production, Quality, Engineering and Business Development. - Assure suppliers meet all supplier quality management system requirements, require 95% or greater OTD, monitor non-conformance, routine supplier audits coordinated with the Quality team - Drive year on year supplier cost reductions - Working with the manufacturing, engineering and quality managers, review and monitor supply chain demands for successful new product development **Required Experience**: - 5+ years progressive supply chain/Purchasing management experience, preferably in commercial aerospace or energy markets. - Excellent negotiation skills - Understanding of financial documents, MRP systems (preferably experience with Epicor), Microsoft office. - Qualified in Supply Chain Management. Certification preferred in CPIM and/or CSCP Kelly Services are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this role. Should you choose to apply, your information will be processed in accordance with Kelly's Privacy Statement. For information regarding data protection at Kelly, please visit theKelly website and have a look into the Privacy Statement.

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