Are you a strategic negotiator with a sharp commercial mindset and a passion for driving value through smart sourcing? Our client is looking for a Senior Buyer to take ownership of their supply base and play a key role in strengthening their competitiveness and performance. What you'll be doing: * Developing sourcing strategies to ensure cost effective purchasing of raw materials, master batches, recycled materials and production consumables ensuring payment terms are most appropriate and advantageous to the business and in order to meet the needs of production. * Managing a process of factored goods ensuring stock levels are in place and suppliers are managed based on total lead times in order to support the requirements of the sales and production function. * Sourcing materials and components for NPI projects as and when required to support company's growth providing expertise procurement input for new project development. * Sourcing new products/suppliers as appropriate to support the commercial offering, ensuring the necessary criteria are met in respect of the production process and quality. * Conducting a process of creating purchasing requirement based on the production plan for production materials and components through the use of requirement spreadsheets which are based on customer demand and the available stock. (All SAP warehouses) Thus giving a net demand for suppliers. * Raising purchase orders ...