Ensuring a cohesive and aligned approach to procurement across our clients group of companies, the Buyer will be responsible for ensuring a positive and pro-active approach to managing all aspects of their client contracts. Full understanding of CI's approach to ethical procurement ensuring high standards are maintained throughout the supply chain cycle.
Duties and Responsibilities
Procurement Strategy
Pro-actively contributes towards the companies' global procurement vision of best practice and being the market leader in procurement by working with Senior Management to improve and promote high levels of operational performance.
Procurement Process
1. Sources and supply goods/services in line with client KPI's.
2. Achieve targets utilizing gainshare/baseline models and negotiating discounts to achieve additional profit.
3. Seeks new suppliers to enhance supply chain and ensure pre-qualification questionnaires are completed accordingly.
4. Negotiates costs and payment terms with suppliers to ensure quality, delivery, and technical standards are met.
5. Ensures the procurement process operates in line with company QHSE standards, policies, and procedures.
6. Ensures queries are resolved promptly whether internal or external.
7. Ensures customs paperwork is provided in a timely manner.
8. Ensures search and utilize client surplus stock for all RFQ's received.
9. Ensures source eco-friendly alternative products and offer to customers.
10. Ensures customer feedback is received on a monthly basis to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
11. Proactively contributes to creating a good team atmosphere.
12. Assist with tender pricing as and when required ensuring market competitiveness.
13. Ensure systems are up to date at all times (ebuy expediting).
Financial Control
Assist credit controller resolve client and supplier invoice queries in a timely manner.
Customer Focus
1. Holds full knowledge of clients' business and objectives of the contract.
2. Develop customer relations with new and existing clients and attending internal marketing meetings.
3. Regularly attend and participate in a positive and constructive way in client meetings.
4. Manages client complaints and looks to problem solve where needed prior to escalation.
Use of Computer Based Systems
1. Holds and promotes competent knowledge of the distribution and reporting systems.
2. Participates in the continuous improvement of CI's e-commerce sites and holds the ability to demonstrate its full capacity to clients (Energy Surplus, Expedite Function, Smartbuyer).
QHSE
1. Familiar with all CI Policies and Procedures relating to Quality, Safety & Environmental standards.
2. Works with CI suppliers to promote Environmentally Friendly alternatives where possible promoting our sustainable procurement initiative on reducing, reusing, and recycling.
3. Contributes towards CI's targets on Recycling and energy saving initiatives.
4. Full awareness of environmental emergency procedures and responsibilities for reporting of any environmental incidents.
5. Awareness of environmental legislation as it relates to current duties.
6. Adoption of recycling and energy saving initiatives within the office environment.
7. Adopting an environmentally responsible attitude to company business and reporting any environmental incidents or potential incidents to Supervision.
Qualifications and Training
* Previous Procurement Experience: 2+ years
* MRO Product Knowledge
* Proficient in the Use of IT systems including Excel, Crystal Reports, Dynamics GP, Management Databases.
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