Salary: Up to £50,000
Location: Elland West Yorkshire (Some travel required)
Our client is currently looking for an experienced Buyer to join the team on a permanent basic due to continued growth. The ideal candidate will come from a FMCG background and have experience of sourcing raw materials and packaging.
Overall Purpose:
Develop sourcing and category plans which deliver cost leadership, innovation, process and product improvement. Responsible for implementing and delivering procurement strategies across key spend areas and ensuring total cost-effective purchasing. Drive synergy and look for opportunities to leverage costs across the company. Focus on ensuring continuous supply of raw materials, the delivery of procurement projects in a timely manner.
You’ll achieve this by visiting our suppliers, spending time at our sites and understanding the full end to end value chain
Duties:
To develop and maintain a category strategy for lead buying areas
Negotiate and manage purchasing contracts including payment terms. Review contract balances against forecast and actual sales. Ensuring all contracts and price breaks are uploaded onto Sage and Board.
Creation of plans to mitigate risk and ensure continuity of supply for goods.
Monitor and review supplier performance and develop continuous improvement plans to ensure quality and service expectations are met and exceeded.
Monitor market developments and trends, competitor strategies and utilise external tools/systems to support negotiation of purchasing contracts.
Support the R&D process to identify new product demands and achieve critical path timings.
To be a first point of escalation from the purchasing team for raw material supply issues and to liaise with suppliers, find alternative materials to meet customers’ requirements.
To identify and communicate potential supply risks of materials used in proposed promotions to the relevant departments to ensure awareness.
Identify, support and deliver value engineering projects for key category spends.
Carry out any reasonable request as requested by any member of management within the reasonable scope of the role.
To define and implement efficient procurement strategy for raw materials, packaging, non-production;
To work with all stakeholders (R&D, supply chain, quality, operations) in a concerted procurement approach;
To be actively involved in group projects;
To operate procurement transactions under the group Governance rules;
To input to the regional procurement/market forecast budget process (Yearly Set up, Yearly implementation, Monthly year to date analysis, Monthly End Year Forecast calculation, Monthly Standard price management, Monthly reporting
Deliver year on year value optimisation and to assigned annualised saving targets
Experience:
Relationship management expertise (able to build strong, value-adding relationships with internal customers)
Strong influencing skills – able to communicate & influence effectively at senior levels
Procurement execution experience (business requirements analysis, market analysis, sourcing strategy, tender, negotiation, contract award, supplier management etc.)
Highly credible in front of key suppliers
Working towards/CIPS qualified – beneficial but not essential
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Salary description
£45000.00 - £50000.00 per year