Senior Buyer (Plant Operations / Manufacturing)
   
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Company networx
Salary Salary up to £37,000
Location Ince, Chester
 
Company Background:

Senior Buyer (Plant Operations / Manufacturing)
Ince, Chester
Salary up to £37,000

Our client is committed to providing innovative solutions to agriculture, developing and manufacturing fertilisers for the modern farming industry. An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a Senior Buyer to lead and develop an effective purchasing team and manage, administer and control all major purchasing materials and service contracts delivering the best value and protection for the business.

 
Job Description:
Within this pivotal role, you will develop and implement purchasing policies and procedures to continuously improve the value of purchased materials and services. Success will be measured by sourcing expertise, timely delivery of products and services, cost improvement and a high level of customer service. It will be your responsibility to manage the Supplier Assessment Programme for the purpose of identification, appraisal and competence of suppliers for both engineering and raw materials.

Using your excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills, you will develop relationships with key stakeholders in order to promote the procurement strategy. With the ability to lead and motivate a team across 2 sites (Ince and Billingham), you will develop team members to achieve business goals.
 
Skills and Qualifications
They are looking for a self motivated and results driven purchasing professional to take ownership of the Purchasing function and play a key role in driving change within the team. With sound commercial knowledge and experience of plant operations in a manufacturing business, you will hold or be working towards a professional purchasing qualification (i.e. CIPS). Sound knowledge of UK contract law is essential coupled with strong IT skills and ideally Oracle experience. This role will require UK and occasional overseas travel and you will be expected to be part of the ‘Out of hours’ duty team. networx is not a typical agency. We handle applications on behalf of our clients. After applying for this role you will be sent an email that it is essential you read in order to complete your application. Unlike a traditional agency we do not hold a database of candidates or put candidates forward for any other vacancies than those to which they have applied.
 
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