Buyer

Buyer

Birmingham

£40,00 to £45,000 Basic Salary

Accountable for the people, processes and costs within the Purchasing areas including purchasing, consignment stock, stores, stock control, and goods in. Business acumen combined with relationship building and organisational skills will ensure costs to the business are minimised whilst maintaining first-class service and quality products to our customers. All work must be carried out in accordance with the ISO 9001 quality management system standards and procedures in place.

Buyer Key Responsibilities:

• Reduce Direct and Indirect costs across the business in line with monthly targets.

• Responsible for buying goods for to use in their manufacturing process, sell or use with their own business.
• Responsible for keeping all costs within the business below target and making recommendations for ongoing efficiencies.
• Being able to provide accurate costings for every job and working closely with the Sales & Marketing Manager and Planner to ensure all associated costs are accounted for in quotes and future work schedules are understood.
• Track metrics to understand usage and identify trends, anomalies, changes.
• Develop of suite of live reports to ensure the Leadership Team is kept up to date and informed.
• Develop good working relationships with all key suppliers and seek to develop new relationships in order to negotiate better quality, pricing, and delivery timeframes.
• Ensure the team liaise with suppliers and resolve any delivery or quality issues immediately.
• Identify 'critical’ suppliers and appropriately manage the relationship to ensure supply security for the business.
• Identify cost down opportunities and work with the production and design teams to ensure they can be implemented within the bounds of the company’s certification and accreditations.
• Provide foresight into nickel and steel prices and recommend actions now, and in the future, to protect the business.
• Reduce stock levels to the right balance of efficiency whilst having sufficient stock on hand for delivery of jobs.
• Understand every cost line on the Financial report.
• Constantly review and challenge the suppliers of consignment stock, to deliver the most cost-effective solution without compromising on quality.
• Carry out monthly Controls & Checks within the Purchasing areas.
• Oversee and manage stock control activities for accuracy and efficiency.
• Oversee the areas and teams within purchasing, consignment stock, stores, stock control, and goods in.

Buyer Requirements

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Senior Buyer or Purchasing role or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience managing people.
• CIPS or equivalent qualification advantageous.
• As the role requires complex calculations and writing reports, a GCSE or equivalent in English & Mathematics of Grade C or above is required
• Proven track record of delivering cost cutting solutions.
• Experience managing supplier relationships.
• Experience of working within agreed targets, KPI’s, and deadlines.
• Proven track record of the ability to make sound commercial decisions.
• Good Microsoft Office skills and experience working with in-house systems.
• Strong commercial orientation with a focus on establishing and maintaining strong supplier relationships.
• Ability to understand, define and work with commercial concepts, processes, and operations.
• Effective in producing and presenting reports.
• A friendly people person with excellent verbal communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• A positive motivator able to lead, manage, and work as part of a team.
• Able to follow end to end processes and commit and deliver specific agreed service standards.