Job Title: Buyer - Manufacturing
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The Skills You'll Need:Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Stock control, MRP/ERP
Your New Salary:£18 p/h
Location:Orpington, 100% on-site
Status:Temporary 3-month assignment, may go longer
Start:ASAP
Working hours: 8am - 4.30pm (8h shift) Monday - Friday, 40h per week
Who You'll be Working For:
Innovative laboratory equipment manufacturer.
What You'll be Doing:
The buyer’s responsibility is to ensure the right product, is in the right place, at the right time, at the right cost and at the right quality.
Responsibilities:
* Engage with all stakeholders within the business.
* Have extensive experience and track record of the whole procurement cycle.
* Achieve key targets set by the purchasing function and head of operations including on-time delivery, supplier performance, and inventory levels.
* Manage supplier risk in and out of the business.
* Help create and implement strategies which meet business objectives.
* Identify new suppliers for the business who can offer new, innovative ideas to support new and current designs.
* Evaluate potential suppliers through vendor management process.
* Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.
* Mitigate price increases and actively seek cost reductions.
* Ability to assess and mitigate supplier risks including geopolitical, logistics, quality, and financial risks using structured risk assessment tools.
* Support and work closely within the team to ensure supplier performance is within agreed KPIs, provide KPI reports to the Supply Chain Manager.
* Collaborate with the planning team to ensure the company achieves on time delivery targets.
* Work collectively with the engineering department to achieve NPD targets for product designs.
The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:
* Understanding of regulatory requirements and quality standards applicable to scientific instrumentation (e.g., ISO, RoHS, REACH, or FDA where relevant).
* Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
* MRP/ERP system experience.
* Experience of auditing suppliers on-sit.
* Experience of forecast and safety stocks.
* Strong IT skills including proficiency in using advanced data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI) to evaluate supplier performance, trends, and procurement metrics.
* Commercially and financially aware.
* Great attention to detail and accuracy.
* Good technical background and ability to read an engineering drawing (not essential but desirable.
* Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, quality, operations, and R&D teams.
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