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Senior Buyer

Major Recruitment
Posted a day ago, valid for 16 days
Location

Halesowen, West Midlands B63 4NG

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Major Recruitment Oldbury is seeking a Purchasing Team Lead for their Halesowen client, offering a highly competitive salary and package.
  • The role requires at least 5 years of experience in Purchasing roles and involves oversight of the purchase order process and management of SKUs.
  • Candidates should be comfortable with data manipulation and analysis in Excel, as well as running reports from the ERP system.
  • The position includes managing supplier relationships and ensuring timely procurement of materials to support blanket sales orders.
  • Work hours are Monday to Thursday from 8 am to 5 pm and Friday from 8 am to 2:30 pm, with parking available at the office.

Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting exclusively for our Halesowen client, who are seeking a Purchasing Team Lead to join their busy and successful head office. This is an integral role within the organisation, with one direct report and they are offering a highly competitive salary and package.

Hours of work are Monday to Thursday 8am -5pm, Friday 8am - 2:30pm.

Duties and tasks will include:

  • Oversight of the PO raising process, supported by one other Purchaser, but also raising PO’s yourself for certain suppliers and categories of spend
  • Working with key suppliers to maintain lead times in Business Central
  • Management of SKU’s, monitoring usage and SKU criteria to add and remove SKU’s as necessary. Running of Slow Moving Inventory reports
  • Review of different product category ROP’s and ROQ’s to manage the thresholds but to also drive the purchasing demand into Purchase Requisitions
  • Management of placing and draw down of purchase blanket orders and securing of material to support blanket sales orders
  • Supplier quotes for special orders and for underlying purchases

Candidates welcome to apply for the role will have the following:

  • Have 5+ years experience working in Purchasing roles
  • Have experience of running reports from the ERP system
  • Be comfortable working with manipulating/analysing data in Excel (Using Pivots etc.)
  • Have a flexible approach to tasks undertaken
  • Have excellent standards and good attention to detail
  • Have great communication skills and work well in a team and with wider functions

Parking is available.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.