Role: Lead Buyer – Automated Engineering
Covering: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Salary: Up to £40k basic & other benefits
JOB PURPOSE
Our client innovates, designs, manufactures and installs their own range of world-class CNC machinery that is used within the uPVC double glazing industry. They are the market leader in supplying fully automatic sawing and machining centres for the preparation of window frames, doors and conservatories.
They are looking to recruit a Lead Buyer to support its Operations Department in the procurement of industrial parts and components from their supplier base in the UK and Europe.
As the Lead Buyer your role is to ensure the timely receipt of materials in line with production and stocking plans. Continuous improvement of the supplier base in terms of cost, lead time, and quality and developing supplier relationships locally and further afield.
Key Skills
- This role suits a well organised person that can manage several ongoing tasks at once.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office (Particularly MS Excel and Outlook)
- Good Interpersonal skills to negotiate with suppliers.
- Experience working with MRP systems (Sage or CIM50 an advantage)
- Previous experience working in a similar role in an engineering or manufacturing company, automated capital machinery is a distinct advantage.
- Proven history of year-on-year savings
- History managing a supplier base improving KPI’s including lead time, delivery on time and quality.
Primary Duties
- Negotiate and identify opportunities for cost out with suppliers.
- Work with project management to ensure supply chain timescales are in line with project timescales.
- Assist parts sales teams with up-to-date material costing to provide up-to-date sales pricing maintaining minimum margins.
- Take ownership of parts issues identified at goods in or production floor, consulting with suppliers for expedient resolution.
- Process Purchase Orders from MRP system as well as verbal or email instructions to suppliers
- Process Requests for quotation from suppliers
- Negotiate and review supplier pricing to ensure the company receives maximum value.
- Process order acknowledgements to ensure parts detail, pricing and delivery are in line with purchase order and where discrepancies exist these are updated into the MRP system.
- Perform expediting activities with suppliers to meet production demand.
- Manage suppliers who are past due on deliveries, maintaining MRP in the process.
- Escalate known supply chain issues to the operations manager and all other relevant stakeholders.
- Assisting with accounts to reconcile purchase orders and invoices.
- Prepare and run periodic reports to show purchasing status to internal stakeholders and externally to show supplier performance.
- Visit and meet with key suppliers in the UK and Europe
- Manage customs clearances with an appointed agent for material orders from outside the UK.
- Assist with Invoice queries from accounts where received goods invoices and purchase order costs are misaligned.
- Negotiate with suppliers on payment terms looking to protect company cashflow as far as possible.
