Senior Buyer

Work Schedule

Standard Office Hours (40/wk)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Position Summary:

The Senior Buyer will have full responsibility for supervising the purchasing process at our site, specifically running the daily order management process for a subset of our raw material purchased by our main Basingstoke site. This includes activities such as using our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) purchasing requisition system, generating purchase orders, and ensuring smooth invoicing clearance. The main challenge will be to ensure timely delivery of all purchased raw materials or resale products, while maintaining efficient inventory levels. This role will be the face of procurement to the business and will have to work closely with internal team members to enable the identification and implementation of alternative sourcing options when vital.

Responsibilities:

• Raise purchase orders in the company ERP system and send them to our suppliers based on our material requirement planning (MRP)
• Responsible for acquiring suppliers order acknowledgements for 100% of purchase orders raised and update our system accordingly
• Optimize the weekly procurement plan by running exception message reports and adjusting the order book with suppliers accordingly
• Lead the communication of the procurement plan and forecast to selected Class A suppliers (critical suppliers)
• Support supplier business reviews with Class A+ suppliers to improve our supplier relationship, and implement action plans when recurrent supply issue occurs
• Regularly supervise material expiry and work to reduce potential scrap to a minimum by bringing solutions
• Represent procurement on your site daily business Tier meetings
• Raise through daily Tier meetings any issues that cannot be solved directly, and ensure to set up a clear problem statement with initial solutions identified and actioned prior to any critical issue
• Ensure to keep inventory to its efficient value, following the division target
• Accurately maintain our supplier or broker documentation in our ERP for each order
• Solve invoice price mismatches with the supplier to ensure 100% alignment between our master data and supplier
• Source and implement alternative raw material when supplier discontinuation are taking place for the site/Group of sites.
• Support the buyer in ensuring that the overall purchasing process are met
• Ensure to always meet process, regulatory, health and safety and quality compliance obligations
• Proactively work to identify areas for improvement across the team and drive project execution plans
• Implement site specific sourcing saving, not managed by our Corporate Category or Sourcing team
  
  

Experience, skills & abilities required:

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has a working knowledge of SAP (purchasing)
• Has strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel
• Experience in a manufacturing or complex operations environment
• Is pro-active, positive
• Finds a Better Way Every Day
• Comfort in switching between operational and strategic tasks