Job Title: Buyer (Fixed term contract 9 months)

Salary: Up to £50,000

Location: Elland West Yorkshire (Some travel required)

Our client is currently looking for an experienced Buyer to join the team on a fixed term contract for 9 months due to continued success. The ideal candidate will come from a FMCG background and have experience of sourcing raw materials and packaging.

Overall Purpose:

• Develop sourcing and category plans which deliver cost leadership, innovation, process and product improvement. Responsible for implementing and delivering procurement strategies across key spend areas and ensuring total cost-effective purchasing. Drive synergy and look for opportunities to leverage costs across the company. Focus on ensuring continuous supply of raw materials, the delivery of procurement projects in a timely manner.
• You’ll achieve this by visiting our suppliers, spending time at our sites and understanding the full end to end value chain

Duties:

• To develop and maintain a category strategy for lead buying areas
• Negotiate and manage purchasing contracts including payment terms. Review contract balances against forecast and actual sales. Ensuring all contracts and price breaks are uploaded onto Sage and Board.
• Creation of plans to mitigate risk and ensure continuity of supply for goods.
• Monitor and review supplier performance and develop continuous improvement plans to ensure quality and service expectations are met and exceeded.
• Monitor market developments and trends, competitor strategies and utilise external tools/systems to support negotiation of purchasing contracts.
• Support the R&D process to identify new product demands and achieve critical path timings.
• To be a first point of escalation from the purchasing team for raw material supply issues and to liaise with suppliers, find alternative materials to meet customers’ requirements.
• To identify and communicate potential supply risks of materials used in proposed promotions to the relevant departments to ensure awareness.
• Identify, support and deliver value engineering projects for key category spends.
• Carry out any reasonable request as requested by any member of management within the reasonable scope of the role.
• To define and implement efficient procurement strategy for raw materials, packaging, non-production;
• To work with all stakeholders (R&D, supply chain, quality, operations) in a concerted procurement approach;
• To be actively involved in group projects;
• To operate procurement transactions under the group Governance rules;
• To input to the regional procurement/market forecast budget process (Yearly Set up, Yearly implementation, Monthly year to date analysis, Monthly End Year Forecast calculation, Monthly Standard price management, Monthly reporting
• Deliver year on year value optimisation and to assigned annualised saving targets

Experience:

• Relationship management expertise (able to build strong, value-adding relationships with internal customers)
• Strong influencing skills – able to communicate & influence effectively at senior levels
• Procurement execution experience (business requirements analysis, market analysis, sourcing strategy, tender, negotiation, contract award, supplier management etc.)
• Highly credible in front of key suppliers
• Working towards/CIPS qualified – beneficial but not essential

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