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Strategic Buyer

Nigel Wright Group

Posted a day ago, valid for 6 days

Crewe, Cheshire CW1 5LE

Full Time

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Nigel Wright Group is recruiting a Strategic Buyer for a design-led manufacturing business in Cheshire, offering a condensed 4-day working week.
The role requires raw materials procurement experience, ideally from the Engineering, Project-based manufacturing, or Automotive sectors.
Candidates should possess strong negotiation, contract management, and supplier relationship skills, with a strategic and commercially minded approach.
The position offers a competitive salary in the range of £40,000 to £50,000, depending on experience.
A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience is required, along with a tenacious and confident communication style.

The CompanyNigel Wright Group are delighted to be partnering exclusively with a highly successful design-led manufacturing business in the Cheshire area to recruit a Strategic Buyer to support their next phase of growth and expansion. The Client will support a condensed 4 day working week!The OpportunityWorking within a newly formed team the Strategic Buyer will have specific raw materials' commodity and project procurement responsibilities:

Commodity and project budget management responsibility
Focused on PPV, supplier consolidation and contract management
Liaising with/building relationships with longstanding suppliers – performance management
New sourcing
Collaborating with internal stakeholders regards key NPI activity
Mentoring junior buyers

About YouThe ideal Strategic Buyer will have/be:

Raw materials’ procurement experience gained from within Engineering/Project based manufacturing/Automotive sectors
Commodity management background beneficial
Strengths in negotiation, contract and supplier relationship management
Commercially minded, strategic, ambitious to progress – personality and potential to grow
Tenacious, assertive and confident communicator with real ‘get up and go’ – able to build relationships with ease
Experience of supporting NPI projects beneficial

For further details of this exciting new opportunity within a longstanding business which will support personal development, please do not hesitate to apply.

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