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Senior Buyer

Investigo
Posted 3 days ago, valid for 17 days
Location

Witham, Essex CM8 1UG

Salary

£45,000 - £54,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • A global manufacturer is seeking a Senior Buyer to enhance supplier relationships and ensure effective procurement, which may involve travel to supplier locations.
  • The role includes overseeing administration tasks such as documentation, ordering, pricing, shipment coordination, and stock control.
  • Collaboration with the Head of Product Development and sales teams is essential to meet customer demands and identify new products and suppliers.
  • Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in a similar role and a salary range of $70,000 to $90,000 is offered.
  • The position also involves monitoring supplier performance, identifying slow-selling stock, and developing ESG responsibilities within the supply chain.

I am currently working with a global manufacturer to recruit a Senior Buyer to join their team.

  • Ensure supplier relationships are stable and sustainable, building and maintaining good communication levels and procure product effectively, including travel to supplier locations.
  • Overseeing the accurate administration of the function, including all documentation, ordering, pricing, shipment, warehousing suitability and stock control and scheduling payments and prepayments.
  • Contact with transport providers and intermediaries, organising shipping.
  • Close collaboration with Head of Product Development to assist in identifying potential new products/ranges and profiling new suppliers.
  • Close liaison with sales to ensure customer demands are clear, via use of forecasts, and are met via correct service levels.
  • Liaison with Far East Supply Representative, assisting in managing supply chain relationships.
  • Developing key suppliers to improve relationships/partnerships and mitigate potential future risk.
  • Monitor regular suppliers and transport providers to assess performance and price competitiveness, introduce metrics where necessary.
  • Identify slow selling stock and initiate action.
  • Analyse buying trends to identify areas for improvement and/or cost saving.
  • Develop and manage ESG responsibilities within the supply chain.

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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.