To negotiate and place purchase orders as per requirement, ensuring schedule reporting and delivery promises are maintained by suppliers. Job Title dependant of experience.
Job Title: Dependant of experience
Responsible to: Purchase Manager
Main Duties and Accountabilities
- Negotiate and place purchase orders of all BOM components, consumables and other goods in line with production and business requirements and current procurement policies and procedures.
- To expedite orders in accordance with purchase order requirements
- Work with suppliers to communicate and improve deliveries, update systems accordingly
- Review and develop existing suppliers, negotiate contracts with new suppliers
- Management of supplier performance including development plans and reviews in line with company quality system, reviewing current KPI’s for suppliers and creation of new ones
- Dealing with supplier enquiries and acknowledgements
- Searching for new suppliers to increase supply base, improve costs and reduce spend and delivery lead times
- Monitor Supplier Performance and provide feedback
- Updating sales cost sheets with current supplier pricing
- Occasional process all goods received and C of C’s
- Allocating from stock and maintaining stock levels
- Maintenance of purchasing systems to keep records accurately
- Providing general administrative support to the Purchasing function
Person Specification
- Demonstrable background of Purchasing in a manufacturing environment, ideally of Hydraulic components or Engineered parts
- Strong negotiation and excellent communication skills
- Understanding of inventory management (parts lists) processes and practice
- Good level of IT literacy (Excel and ERP/MRP )
- Good personal organisational and motivational ability, self-managed
- Excellent communication skills. Ability to interface at all levels with internal contacts as well as customers and suppliers
- Flexible with regard to tasks and working hours
- Commercially astute, able to negotiate with suppliers to get best value
- Proactive and focused
- Understanding of Engineering drawings (will be an advantage)
- Full UK driving Licence