Buyer

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