Role: Buyer
Location: Newport
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £32,000 - £37,000
Hours: Monday - Friday 37 hours per week (Onsite)
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for maintaining assigned supplier relations by selecting suppliers and negotiating prices for material and/or services required, so ensuring procurement of nominated materials and services to agreed programmes by the most economic, timely and efficient means
* Analyse, negotiate and report supplier price changes
* Conduct periodic commodity surveys to obtain price comparisons; evaluate market trends to develop new services and create cost savings
* Responsible for forecasting market trends affecting material and service availability costs, raw material and products
* Select new and alternative sources of supply and in collaboration with technical staff select new and alternative materials and services, providing technical and/or commercial advantage to the company
* Ensure all purchasing requisitions and programmes are correct and reflect the current supplier’s lead-times, keeping management and user departments informed where changes threaten work programmes
* Identify potential problem areas and recommend changes
* Follow up on rejected material and obtain necessary credit
* Minimise the company’s exposure with regard to MOQ’s and price increases, obtaining the relevant authority levels
* Proactive liaison with other departments as necessary to forecast, plan to meet, and to supply demand to relevant quality
* Meeting health & safety requirements
* Ensure compliance with company codes of conduct
* Administration and reporting as required
* Payment terms negotiation, optimisation and management
* International trading issues/imports/legal, awareness
* To identify & drive continuous improvements within the areas of control
* Control and minimise excess and cost / stock.
For more information, please reach out to Outline Recruitment directly.