BUYER

Job Descriptions

BUYER

Join our innovative and dynamic team.  We are a Buyer in the Wigan area. We pride ourselves on our engineering and service, delivering high quality products to our clients.

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a BUYER

This is an exciting organisation to be part of, you would be joining a prestigious, state of the Art manufacturing organisation, with a vast multitude of different manufacturing process under one roof.

A Queens and Kings Award winning business!

Commutable from Standish, Wigan, Ormskirk, St Helen’s, Preston, Bolton, Leigh and Blackburn

KEY BENEFITS

• Salary: £45,000
• Days Monday – Friday
• King and Queens Award Winning Business
• Busy, well- established organisation
• Super friendly working culture
• Choice of start and finish times
• Plenty of scope to develop further
• Opportunities for training and career advancement
• Modern, safe working environment
• On site parking and Company Pension

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Purchasing all raw materials and packaging
• Price negotiation plus all Terms and Conditions
• Regular supplier meetings
• Running the Supplier Quality Assurance System
• Generate weekly purchasing figures
• Monthly stock report
• Providing quarterly costings
• Supervise 2 purchasing staff
• Set KPI’s for the department
• Point of contact for arranging raw materials
• Stock management
• Forecasting
• Maintain supplier ranking system

REQUIREMENTS 

• Significant Purchasing and Supply Chain experience
• Ideally, your experience will have been gained from within a manufacturing environment – ideally chemicals
• Experience with supplier rationalisation
• Raw material and packaging purchasing experience
• Previous supervisory experience ideal but not essential
• Good use of Microsoft
• The ability to juggle multiple projects

What are you waiting for?  Send your CV asap