Job Title: Buyer
Location: Blackwood
Salary: Depends on Experience

Hours: Full time. Monday – Friday days regular

Here at The Recruitment Co, we are currently recruiting a Buyer to work for a company based in Blackwood.
Manage the purchasing activities for prototype and production projects, playing a vital role in ensuring project requirements are met through sourcing, negotiating, and procuring material critical to our innovative designs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage purchasing activities on customer projects ensuring critical timings are understood and met.
• Request and analyse supplier quotations, raising purchase orders with the best value suppliers.
• Communicate with suppliers and wider project team on lead times, pricing, and delivery dates.
• Negotiate pricing and lead times with suppliers.
• Build and maintain good relationships with suppliers.
• Manage and maintain adequate stock levels.
• Ensure that all materials are ordered and managed via the SAGE 200 MRP system.
• Assist the Procurement Lead in developing new and existing component and tooling suppliers.
• Support the Quality Manager in supplier audits for prototype parts and tooling.
• Ensure that annual contracts are controlled, and that sufficient timing is generated to allow for the appropriate levels of negotiation.
• Facilitate technical calls and discussion with suppliers and engineering ensuring part feasibility is understood and agreed.

Key Requirements:

• Maintain a high standard of Health and Safety based upon safe working practices and support environmental initiatives.
• Minimum 3 years purchasing experience.
• Strong organisational, planning and time management skills.
• Previous experience working in an engineering / manufacturing environment advantageous.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under frequent changing priorities.
• Excellent communication and negotiating skills.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Be able to listen and communicate with key stakeholders
• Competent in communicating technical requirements to the supply base whilst in-turn issuing succinct feedback to the programme team.
• CIPS accreditation is desirable but not mandatory.
• Computer literacy including Word and Excel; Sage 200 experience would be desirable.
• Valid UK Driving Licence and Passport – Willing and able to travel globally.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Excellent Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme (Employee Contribution up to 11%/ Employer contribution up to 15%)
• Life Insurance (6 times annual salary)
• Access to pool cars for travel
• Company laptop/ phone
• Free Parking
• Flexible Working Policy
• Home Working Policy
• Employee Events
• Recognition Awards
• Training and Development (Internal & External)
• Share Save Schemes
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme- Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme/ Financial Assistance Schemes
• Well-being Initiatives

If you are interested please apply now!

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The Recruitment Co. is an equal opportunities employer and we’re committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.