Job Description
Commodity Buyer – Job Summary:
We’re supporting our client, a leading global automotive manufacturer based in Banbury, who are looking for a Commodity Buyer to join their growing team. The successful Commodity Buyer will have experience of working in busy manufacturing purchasing environment.
Salary: £40,000 – £45,000
Benefits: To be discussed at interview
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Banbury
Job Start date: ASAP
Responsibilities:
- Receive, register, challenge & process purchase requisitions in order to achieve best conditions for the company and conforming with appropriate operating procedures.
- Where necessary support internal customers in obtaining specific or urgent requirements.
- Secure early involvement in development of capital purchases through negotiation and benchmarking of supplier proposals or quotations.
- Support the Assistant Purchasing Manager in the preparation and distribution of reports and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Manage a monthly MRO review.
- Establish and maintain a process for managing, negotiating and renewing significant service contracts and rental or lease agreements.
- Strive to achieve specific objectives as agreed with Purchasing Manager designed to support the delivery of business plan and the Commodity Buyers personal development goals.
- Analyse spends and trends to identify cost reduction opportunities, targets, projects and timing.
Safety, Environmental Responsibilities:
- Comply with Health & Safety and Environmental Policies.
- Comply compliance with IATF 16949.
- Ensure compliance with Environmental & Health & Safety standards in line with current certification.
- Comply with the General Risk Assessments.
- Comply with the Manual Handling Risk Assessments.
- Comply with COSHH Risk Assessments.
- Report accidents and near misses.
- Comply with the Lock out Tag out Procedure (where applicable).
- Comply with the Safe System of Work documents.
- Take appropriate actions in emergency situations.
- Adhere to 5S processes and procedures.
Quality:
- Raise quality care points.
- Liaise with other departments regarding quality concerns.
- Adhere to standardised working procedures.
- Participate in quality checks and controls.
- Adhere to quality care points.
- Report repeat quality issues.
Timing:
- Ensure all quality decisions are made considering risk to supply and escalate as required.
- Report any issues or concerns to your line manager.
Cost:
- Participate in continuous improvement projects to improve departmental performance on safety, uptime, availability, maintenance, equipment modifications, plant, error proofing, technical systems and processes and cost down opportunities.
- Participate in projects within the companies CIP scheme.
- Taking fast action to reduce customer demerits and cost of quality.
- Use consumables responsibly.
Motivation:
- Comply with the principals of the company’s employee charter
- Participate in training and development programmes and share knowledge with the wider teams.
- Identify areas of development and training requirements.
- Participate in the company’s suggestion scheme.
- Promote the open door policy.
- Support the Fairness Committee initiative.
- Ensure good team working principals are being adhered by all team members.
About You:
Personal Attributes:
- Self-motivated and proactive Approach.
- Analytic Skills, Data Management, Logic Driven.
- Strategic Awareness of Market place, networking.
- Problem Solver, People Person, Supporting Others.
- Confident and able to summarise problems and solutions to management.
Specific Skills & Experience:
- Motivated self-starter. Able to work on own initiative
- Evidence of engineering aptitude an advantage
- Good commercial awareness and analytical approach
- Experience of working in busy manufacturing purchasing environment preferred (min 5 years)
- Assertiveness in face to face and telephone transactions
- Confident negotiating style
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Awareness of importance of standard operating procedures
- Driving License
- Team player
- CIPS professional qualification preferred (or equivalent)
Job Application:
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