Posted 3 May 2024
Job ref: 231445LW
Buyer
- Location: Crawley, Hampshire, England
- Salary: £30 per hour + Umbrella
- Category
- Sector: Aerospace and Defence
- Contract type Contract
- Consultant: Louise Wardle
Morson are recruiting a number of Buyers to support our Crawley based defence client. The Buyer must be prepared to work 3 days/week on site in Crawley and will have experience of using ERP and preferably experience within a manufacturing/production/engineering environmnent. This will be a contract role until at least Christmas with the possibility of leading to a permanent role for the right candidate.
Key responsibilities
On a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in:
- Executing all activities in accordance with processes
- Timely and accurate acquisition of products against ERP driven demand, to ensure all requests and information is correctly received and understood
- Issuing RFQs to approved suppliers in support of business operations, programme production requirements.
- Generation of purchase orders to achieve appropriate levels of material availability to meet both the Master Production Schedule and day-to-day business operational demands.
- Raise internal RFIs against supplier queries and maintain ownership for the timely resolution of issues and incidents (such as obsolescence, non-conformity, supplier returns, etc.
- Management of Open Order Book to ensure on-time supplier delivery objectives
- Work with other areas of the business to highlight and resolve supplier performance issues, delayed deliveries, PO queries, invoices and payment queries etc.
- Actively identifying and delivering opportunities for cost savings, cost avoidance and improved cash management through effective supplier negotiation and /or supplier selection (purchasing channel) to improve bottom line company performance.
About you
Ideally, you’ll:
- Have previous experience and demonstrated success working within Procurement.
- Be proficient in working with Microsoft Excel
- Previous experience working with Oracle would be an advantage.
- Have proven experience in working within a fast-paced environment
- Have the ability to manage multiple suppliers and products
- Work collaboratively in order to enable the function to deliver to business needs.
- Possess excellent oral and written communication skills
- Have the ability to plan ahead and solve challenging operational issues