Buyer

As a Buyer, are you frustrated in your current procurement role or just ready for a new challenge? If you want more autonomy and responsibility to drive change and improvements in our purchasing function, with a clear career path into a more senior buying role then you should keep reading. We're a fast-paced manufacturing site in Oakham with a domestic and international client base, and we need your help to drive our purchasing department forwards.
 
BASIC SALARY: Up to £40,000 dependent on your relevant experience
 
BENEFITS:
· 4% employer pension
· Cash back medical plan after probation
· 37.5 hour working week with lunchtime finish on a Friday
· 24 days holiday + bank holidays - rising with service
· External training and qualifications, if needed for your development
 
LOCATION: Oakham, Rutland
 
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Corby, Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough, Stamford, Grantham, Uppingham, Peterborough, Kettering, Wellingborough are just some of the locations our current employees live
 
Why should you join us?
 
· Our business is growing thanks to the government-backed incentives around the power industry
· We can offer you genuine career development into a more senior buying role
· We manufacture on site so you can get hands on involved with the business and really make a difference
 
JOB DESCRIPTION: Buyer, Procurement - raw materials, manufacturing, engineering
 
Our procurement team and production planning work closely together, so you'll know what to buy and how much of it. We have over 1000+ different SKUs that we directly procure. As a Buyer, you'll support our existing Buyers, ease their workload and be involved in all areas of direct purchasing including raw materials, consumables, parts, and components. No two days will be the same.
 
This role is vital in the success of our business growth.
 
YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: Buyer, Procurement - raw materials, manufacturing, engineering
 
· Drive down procurement costs, improve our existing supplier lead times, improve product quality.
· Ensure your raw materials, parts and components are ordered in a timely manner, with transparency of lead times - there will be 1000s of different things being bought. Some are simple reorder generation, others will be bespoke or one-off purchase orders.
· Raise, chase and close off POs
· Find that balance between minimum and maximum stock levels
· Support our existing experienced Buyers where needed
 
YOUR BACKGROUND: Buyer, Procurement - raw materials, manufacturing, engineering
 
· Solid procurement exposure from a manufacturing or production environment
· Experience of stock control and supplier management, cost reduction and improving lead times
· You will be competent with ERP and have good Excel skills too
· Be competent with CAD drawings (Schematics) / Bill of Materials (BOMs)
 
Ideally your direct buying experience will cover a variety of things such as stainless steel, aluminium, fabricated or machined parts, sheet-metal, mild steel and sub-assemblies, hydraulics, pneumatics, fasteners, technical consumables etc so you will find the transition to us easier.
 
But, we also welcome your application if you come from any manufacturing related procurement background.
 
THE COMPANY:
 
We design and manufacture our own special purpose machinery and equipment. We sell domestically and globally into the power and telecoms sectors.
 
PROSPECTS:
 
There is a genuine career development opportunity for you within our business if you are good enough.
 
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets and worked with the following products and/or services: Buyer, buying, procurement, raw materials, MRP, ERP, Excel, expediting, purchasing, strategic buyer, procurement officer, procurement manager, senior buyer, CIPS.
 
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.
 
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
 
REF: JAC18438, Wallace Hind Selection