Commodity Buyer - Proftech Talent Ltd : Job Details

Commodity Buyer

We are recruiting for a Commodity Buyer on a permanent basis for our Banbury based client. Your role will be to fully support the division in its purchasing activities, meeting company goals for cost, quality, innovation, and delivery.

As a Commodity Buyer you will need to have/be:

• CIPS membership or the appropriate business qualification is desirable
• At least 5 years in engineering / manufacturing purchasing environment, with experience and understanding of APQP, PPAP, TS-16949, cost tracking and quotation analysis.
• Cost improvement techniques and achievement.
• Positive contributor to new product launches.
• Computer literate - in particular Excel.
• Highly developed in communication and influencing skills.
• Negotiation skills.
• Highly numerate.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Details:

• Salary: £50, 000 - £55, 000
• Working Hours: Full Time, Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours
• Location: Banbury (onsite)
• Duration: Permanent

Role of Commodity Buyer:

• Undertake supplier selection and strategy to meet business and project requirements as requested.
• Identify business goals for cost improvement and continually strive to achieve or better that goal in a sustainable and measurable fashion.
• Manage selected customer nominated suppliers.
• Set and communicate supplier performance targets and requirements.
• Establish production supply agreements to be best in class in commercial terms.
• Develop and maintain commodity strategies for given commodities relevant to business goals.
• Fully support the engineering change management of supplied components and materials.
• Actively participate in continuous improvement processes - supplier quality, cost, innovation, delivery and management.
• Where necessary take on the closure of quality issues with suppliers, supporting the relevant quality engineer.
• Maintenance of Purchasing database, spends, budgets and suppliers.
• Take a leading role in coordinating the activities of stakeholders to meet business improvement objectives
• Manage all SAP related functions relevant to suppliers / commodity.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects to improve departmental performance on safety, uptime, availability, maintenance, equipment modifications, plant, error proofing, technical systems and processes and cost down opportunities.
• Participate in projects within the companies CIP scheme.
• Taking fast action to reduce customer demerits and cost of quality.
• Use consumables responsibly.
• Comply with the principals of the company's employee charter
• Participate in training and development programmes and share knowledge with the wider teams.
• Identify areas of development and training requirements.
• Participate in the company's suggestion scheme.
• Ensure good team working principals are being adhered by all team members.

Benefits of working as a Commodity Buyer:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Share scheme
• Employee assist program
• Free on-site parking
• Pension scheme
• Workwear
• Company Share Participation Scheme