Buyer

Do to our continued growth and expansion**Meech**have an opportunity available for a**Buyer **to join our team based in**Witney, Oxfordshire**. Joining us on a full time, permanent basis, you will receive a **competitiverate of pay**plus generous benefits.

**Benefits we will offer our Buyer**:

- Good working environment
- Competitive basic salary
- Discretionary profit share bonus
- Health insurance
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance

**Main responsibilities as our Buyer**:
**Reporting to the Purchasing Manager your main activities and responsibilities will include**:

- Developing and maintaining a thorough working knowledge of Meech products.
- Taking responsibility for sourcing, purchasing and the delivery of materials and components with a particular emphasis on PCBA; electronic component distribution market; transformers; sensors; looms and cables.
- Implementing cost savings.
- Involvement in the weekly running of the MPS/MRP from Microsoft Dynamics Navision (NAV).
- Placing of Purchase Orders - maintaining accurate inbound delivery dates on Microsoft Dynamics Navision (NAV) and liaising with Production, Customer Service and Goods-in warehouse.
- Control of free issue items to suppliers for subcontract.
- Ensuring consistent regulatory compliance, Quality, OTIF and cost performance.
- Ensuring the MRP system reflects current trading conditions such as lead-time, ordering quantities and price.
- Implementing and managing inventory levels to ensure product availability whilst minimising obsolescence and driving inventory reduction.
- Achieving best value and ensuring continuous improvement.
- Involvement in the selection of suppliers, ongoing approval and relationship management.
- Providing purchasing support to other departments as required.

**Skills, knowledge and experience required by our Buyer**:

- Based at Meech’s UK head office in Witney, Oxfordshire.
- This is a full-time role (37½ hours per week, 8.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday.
- Proven experience as a buyer within a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrable experience of delivering cost savings.
- Excellent understanding of the end to end procurement process.
- Ability to understand and extract technical information from drawings and specifications.
- Numerate, analytical and commercially aware.
- A competent user of Microsoft Excel (pivot tables etc).
- Strong MRP/ERP experience, ideally Microsoft Dynamics Navision (NAV).
- Excellent organisational skills, high degree of accuracy, attention to detail and forward thinking.
- Ability to build strong and lasting relationships with suppliers and colleagues.
- A CIPS qualification would be preferable but not essential.

If you have the skills and experience to become our**Buyer**, please**apply**now. We’d love to hear from you.

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