Our client are a leading manufacturing business and we're supporting them to recruit a Junior Buyer to join their team.
Reporting to the Senior Buyer, you will be responsible for purchasing related activity ensuring that material (direct and indirect) is available when needed and supply is optimised in-line with company strategies. This is a 12 month FTC with potential to go permanent in the future.
Key duties:
Obtain quotations, negotiate pricing, lead-times and payment terms
Generate and issue purchase orders and obtain order acknowledgements
Manage deliveries and inventory (expediting and rescheduling) and keep the MRP system updated with
current delivery dates
Liaise with internal stakeholders regarding the status of indirect purchase orders
Input and maintain master data within the MRP system
Manage and implement design changes with ...