Buyer (direct)

Buyer (Direct)

HPCareers are now assisting our international, award winning design and manufacturing client with their further development of this Procurement team.

The Role

• To negotiate and place purchase orders
• To meet and approve both new and existing suppliers
• To support the continuous improvement of supplier performance
• To ensure the business remain compliant
• Ensure purchased items are delivered on time, at the correct price, with the correct documentation and to the required standard
• Procure only from original manufacturers or franchised distributors and have full traceability back to manufacture
• To carry out purchasing according to specified needs
• Securing cost reductions wherever possible

• Maintain adequate stock levels
• Review methods of reducing cost of purchased parts
• Progress orders and ensure timely delivery
• Management of long lead times
• Working closely with production planning
• Resolve shortages of products for production
• Build relations with existing suppliers
• Obtain commitment from new suppliers
• Source new products and suppliers where/when required
• To review in conjunction with QA, supplier performance and define recommended courses of action to improve supplier response
• To carry out vendor rating and monitor suppliers
• Liaise with the drawing office and the Materials planning team
• To provide costing information for outsourcing projects
• Provide sales with accurate BOM costs when required
• Support configuration control with new part create information
• Completion of all NCR supplier responses
• Raise engineering change notes
• DPS screening of suppliers