THE OPPORTUNITY – BUYER
The Buyer is responsible for supporting our business in ensuring delivery of high-quality Purchase Orders with vendors, supporting continuous process improvements and operational efficiency/productivity gains across the business. Acts as a first escalation point for local supplier issues and ensures that the local stakeholders are appropriately trained on Procurement tools.
The role will also support material coordination within the Asset and work closely with the logistics and materials team.
Location:: Barrow-in-Furness
Duration:: 2-year contract
Contract Type:: PAYE
Day Rate:
TBC - For your application to be progressed, please ensure you provide a PAYE day rate banding expectation. Please note that there is no travel and accommodation allowance provided.
AND NOW FOR THE TECHNICAL BIT…: In role, you will be required to:
- Work in full compliance with the company Buying policy, educating and driving the correct behaviors of business stakeholders
- Build effective stakeholder relationships, ensuring a high service level in terms of buyer functional delivery
- Partner with internal customers to positively influence spending decisions, to analyze and make recommendations to the business
- Understand the business needs and validate the requirements are justified
- Ensure availability of all goods and services in time - proactively support business owners to ensure equipment/ consumables/ service availability to meet agreed timescales
- Execute Purchase Orders including full tracking up to delivery on site
- Manage vendors to ensure timely deliveries and quality compliance
- Ensure flawless procurement procedures – working with the relevant individuals to identify and make improvements where required
- Support implementation of Catalogues and promote/execute with local requestors higher spend penetration through Catalogues
- Support negotiations, contract implementation and maintenance, incl. supplier performance metrics
- Identify savings opportunities and partner with internal customers to deliver savings through tenders/negotiations/contract renewals
- Any other associated duties as reasonably required
ABOUT YOU: To be successful in this role, we are looking for:
- Extensive SAP experience (as buyer)
- Strong customer service approach to delivering the buying function.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, decision making/problem solving, influencing and team building skills.
- Experience with contracts activities (strategy, sourcing, contracts management, etc.)
- Ability to work collaboratively across an organization and with external parties.
- Ability to prioritise and ensure seamless execution.
- Ability to work with external stakeholders comfortably.
- Strong business acumen and commercial skills along with technical system skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office
- Degree educated preferred
In addition to technical knowledge and credibility, we are looking for someone who lives our values - Agility, Collaboration, Courage, Care, and Delivery. A person who embraces and supports change, while ensuring the safe and efficient operation of a mature asset.