Buyer - Manufacturing

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Job Title: Buyer - Manufacturing

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The Skills You'll Need: Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Stock control, MRP/ERP

Your New Salary: £18 p/h

Location: Orpington, 100% on-site

Status: Temporary 3-month assignment, may go longer

Start: ASAP

Working hours: 8am - 4.30pm (8h shift) Monday - Friday, 40h per week

Who You'll be Working For:

Innovative laboratory equipment manufacturer.

What You'll be Doing:

The buyer’s responsibility is to ensure the right product, is in the right place, at the right time, at the right cost and at the right quality.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with all stakeholders within the business.
• Have extensive experience and track record of the whole procurement cycle.
• Achieve key targets set by the purchasing function and head of operations including on-time delivery, supplier performance, and inventory levels.
• Manage supplier risk in and out of the business.
• Help create and implement strategies which meet business objectives.
• Identify new suppliers for the business who can offer new, innovative ideas to support new and current designs.
• Evaluate potential suppliers through vendor management process.
• Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.
• Mitigate price increases and actively seek cost reductions.
• Ability to assess and mitigate supplier risks including geopolitical, logistics, quality, and financial risks using structured risk assessment tools.
• Support and work closely within the team to ensure supplier performance is within agreed KPIs, provide KPI reports to the Supply Chain Manager.
• Collaborate with the planning team to ensure the company achieves on time delivery targets.
• Work collectively with the engineering department to achieve NPD targets for product designs.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Understanding of regulatory requirements and quality standards applicable to scientific instrumentation (e.g., ISO, RoHS, REACH, or FDA where relevant).
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• MRP/ERP system experience.
• Experience of auditing suppliers on-sit.
• Experience of forecast and safety stocks.
• Strong IT skills including proficiency in using advanced data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI) to evaluate supplier performance, trends, and procurement metrics.
• Commercially and financially aware.
• Great attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good technical background and ability to read an engineering drawing (not essential but desirable.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, quality, operations, and R&D teams.

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