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Senior Buyer - FULLY REMOTE

Senior Buyer - FULLY REMOTE

Barclay Meade

Posted 21 hours ago, valid for 3 days

Southampton, Hampshire SO19 1BQ

£48,000 - £57,600 per annum

Full Time

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A successful engineering business is seeking a Senior Buyer for a remote position, requiring technical procurement experience in the oil, gas, and petrochemical sectors.
The Senior Buyer will work with a team to handle strategic tasks such as negotiations, supplier selection, and managing supplier relationships to ensure continuity of supply.
Experience with valves, pumps, and flow control equipment is highly desirable, along with the ability to liaise with technical engineering stakeholders.
Applicants should have a background as a Buyer, Senior Buyer, Project Buyer, or Technical Buyer, and be comfortable with engineering concepts and remote work.
The salary for this position is competitive, and candidates should have relevant experience in procurement, ideally with a focus on the specified commodities.

Successful engineering business require a Senior Buyer on a REMOTE basis. Applicants ideally should have technical procurement experience as a Buyer or Senior Buyer with organisations manufacturing and supplying; valves & pumps to oil, gas and petrochemical sectors.

The Senior Buyer will join a team of Buyers and Senior Buyers for this successful engineering and supply business, servicing the oil & gas, petrochemical and process industries. The Senior Buyer will be responsible for strategic tasks such as negotiations and supplier selection while ensuring suppliers are managed effectively to ensure continuity of supply to customers. The procurement will focus on; valves, pumps, and similar flow control equipment used in the industry and previous experience across these commodities is highly desirable. The role will involve close liaison with technical engineering stakeholders in Quality and Design, and also Sales.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing and successful business on a fully remote, permanent contract.

Specific duties of the Senior Buyer include:

Selection/de-selection of supply partners and supply market intelligence activities
Negotiation, agreement and management of agreements with suppliers
Operational and strategic supplier and contract management
Keep abreast of supplier landscape for; valves, pumps, flow control, service parts and equipment
Provide technical and commercial advice on suppliers/products in the; valves, pumps, flow control space
Support the function as it continues to grow and streamline operations

Senior Buyer applicants should meet the following criteria:

Technical procurement experience, as a Buyer, Senior Buyer, Project Buyer or Technical Buyer
Knowledge of; valves, pumps, flow control equipment used within oil, gas, petrochemical and process is highly desired
Ability to perform, strategic and operational procurement tasks
Comfortable with engineering stakeholders, technical drawings, BOMs, MRP/ERP etc.
Comfortable with a full-time, remote role

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