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Commodity Buyer
We are recruiting for a Commodity Buyer on a permanent basis for our Banbury based client. Your role will be to fully support the division in its purchasing activities, meeting company goals for cost, quality, innovation, and delivery.
As a Commodity Buyer you will need to have/be:
- CIPS membership or the appropriate business qualification is desirable
- At least 5 years in engineering / manufacturing purchasing environment, with experience and understanding of APQP, PPAP, TS-16949, cost tracking and quotation analysis.
- Cost improvement techniques and achievement.
- Positive contributor to new product launches.
- Computer literate - in particular Excel.
- Highly developed in communication and influencing skills.
- Negotiation skills.
- Highly numerate.
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
Details:
- Salary: £50, 000 - £55, 000
- Working Hours: Full Time, Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours
- Location: Banbury (onsite)
- Duration: Permanent
Role of Commodity Buyer:
- Undertake supplier selection and strategy to meet business and project requirements as requested.
- Identify business goals for cost improvement and continually strive to achieve or better that goal in a sustainable and measurable fashion.
- Manage selected customer nominated suppliers.
- Set and communicate supplier performance targets and requirements.
- Establish production supply agreements to be best in class in commercial terms.
- Develop and maintain commodity strategies for given commodities relevant to business goals.
- Fully support the engineering change management of supplied components and materials.
- Actively participate in continuous improvement processes - supplier quality, cost, innovation, delivery and management.
- Where necessary take on the closure of quality issues with suppliers, supporting the relevant quality engineer.
- Maintenance of Purchasing database, spends, budgets and suppliers.
- Take a leading role in coordinating the activities of stakeholders to meet business improvement objectives
- Manage all SAP related functions relevant to suppliers / commodity.
- Participate in continuous improvement projects to improve departmental performance on safety, uptime, availability, maintenance, equipment modifications, plant, error proofing, technical systems and processes and cost down opportunities.
- Participate in projects within the companies CIP scheme.
- Taking fast action to reduce customer demerits and cost of quality.
- Use consumables responsibly.
- Comply with the principals of the company's employee charter
- Participate in training and development programmes and share knowledge with the wider teams.
- Identify areas of development and training requirements.
- Participate in the company's suggestion scheme.
- Ensure good team working principals are being adhered by all team members.
Benefits of working as a Commodity Buyer:
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Share scheme
- Employee assist program
- Free on-site parking
- Pension scheme
- Workwear
- Company Share Participation Scheme
