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Job Title: Purchaser
The Skills You'll Need: Purchasing, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Advanced Excel, CIPD
Your New Salary: £35-45k
Office based OR Hybrid: 3 Days in Office (Taunton Area), 2 at home
Status: Permanent
Start: ASAP
Working hours: 8-5 Mon-Thur, 8-2 Fri, 1 hour lunch break.
Who You'll be Working for: Highly successful chemicals manufacturer.
Purchaser - What You'll be Doing:
- Day-to-day execution of local (UK) Procurement activities, specifically: Managing existing vendor relationships, Identification of new vendors, Price negotiations, Contract management
- Replenishment - order placing and associated progress chasing of finished products sourced from third parties
- Setting up of new Supplier accounts and maintenance of vendor pricing with the Company’s ERP system.
- To support the Operations and Quality functions in the investigation of supplier complaints and non-conformances; and in the measurement of the performance of key vendors.
- To support the wider UK Site team structure to optimise customer service levels and ensure that it continues to meet its planned OTIF target levels.
- To support the Continuous Improvement of Supply Chain activities within the local UK and wider regional organisation
Purchaser - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:
- Experience in a Procurement role, preferably within a manufacturing and/or chemical industry environment.
- Ideally CIPD qualified.
- Demonstrable track record of managing multiple vendors across a large and complex product item portfolio.
- Strong negotiation skills and demonstrable experience of delivering cost reductions by developing positive working relationships with multiple vendors.
- Familiarity with operating MRP systems within ERP environments, preferably Microsoft Dynamics.
- Experience and competence with use of the Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint; and experience of using reporting tools such as Power BI.
- Excellent planning, organisational and task prioritisation skills, with the ability to self-prioritise own workload.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills at all organisational levels.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to develop strong collaborative working relationships with both internal and external customers to deliver organsational goals.
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