Position: Buyer
Location: Abercynon
Industry: Manufacturing
Salary: £30,000-£35,000
Shift Pattern: Days regular, Monday to Friday
About this Vacancy:
The successful candidate will be responsible for the management and development of a portfolio of suppliers from whom our client buy goods and services that are critical to their operations.
Duties:
Responsible for maintaining assigned supplier relations by selecting suppliers and negotiating prices for material and/or services required, so ensuring procurement of nominated materials and services to agreed programmes by the most economic, timely and efficient means.
Analyse, negotiate and report supplier price changes.
Conduct periodic commodity surveys to obtain price comparisons; evaluate market trends to develop new services and create cost savings.
Select new and alternative sources of supply and in collaboration with technical staff select new and alternative materials and services, providing technical and or commercial advantage to the company.
Ensure all purchasing requisitions and programmes are correct and reflect the current supplier's lead-times, keeping management and user departments informed where changes threaten work programmes.
Identify potential problem areas and recommend changes.
Minimise the company's exposure with regard to MOQ's and price increases, obtaining the relevant authority levels
Proactive liaison with other departments as necessary to forecas...