Senior Buyer

Job Title: Senior Buyer

Location: Bedfordshire

Salary: £48.00 p/h - We are booking interviews in next week! Please call or email for a slot

Success requires experience of working in a functional organisation and a blend of proven skills including relationship building and achievement of deliveries on time and in full, through the ability to successfully negotiate and manage procurements, ranging from simple to complex subcontracts. This will be coupled with effectively working within a multi-disciplinary product team including Engineering, Operations and Quality.

The role focusses on supporting a variety of programmes and undertakes activity across multiple categories of goods and services including simple to complex build to print in commodity areas including PCB's, box-builds, cable harnesses, mechanical, COTs and MOTs.

The Role:

So, what will you be doing as a Senior Buyer?

• Undertaking the procurement process including issuing RFQ's, Invitation to Tender, Terms and Conditions, negotiations, bid evaluations, and award of contract .
• Holding a procurement delegation and signing supplier agreements and purchase orders within this limit.
• Negotiating with suppliers to ensure best-value is achieved.
• Managing supplier performance to meet Technical, Schedule, Quality and Cost requirements.
• Developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships with key internal and external business contacts to achieve mutual benefit.
• Ensuring procurement activities are compliant with internal/legislative procedures, and that risks are identified and managed.
• Providing the key interface between internal customers and suppliers to ensure that communication is effectively managed, and issues and risks are fully understood and managed.
• Supporting internal and external reviews of supplier performance as required.
• Contributing to the continual improvement of the supply chain processes.

My client is keen to get this position filled ASAP, so if you feel you have the skills and desire to provide passion and drive as the next Senior Buyer, this is the opportunity for you!

You will be required to undergo SC clearance for this role.

So, if you are interested in joining a well-established, renowned, globally recognised organisation working with experts in their field as the next Senior Buyer, hit that apply button now!

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