Job Description
Job Title: Buyer
Client: Global manufacturing company
Location: Bristol
Hourly Rate: Competitive inside IR35
Duration: 6-months
Working arrangements: Hybrid, 3 days per week on-site
About the Role:
As a Buyer, your mission is to ensure a consistent and sustainable supply of raw materials to meet production demands and support the sites’ production schedule. They play a key role in developing operational buying capabilities through supplier management, process improvement, and team collaboration to strengthen the department’s ability to support business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Experience and Skils:
Inclusion statement
Outsource UK is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. You'll receive consideration for your application without regard to race, religion or belief, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or age.
Client: Global manufacturing company
Location: Bristol
Hourly Rate: Competitive inside IR35
Duration: 6-months
Working arrangements: Hybrid, 3 days per week on-site
About the Role:
As a Buyer, your mission is to ensure a consistent and sustainable supply of raw materials to meet production demands and support the sites’ production schedule. They play a key role in developing operational buying capabilities through supplier management, process improvement, and team collaboration to strengthen the department’s ability to support business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the procurement of raw materials to ensure consistent supply aligned with production schedules.
- Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships, negotiating terms and monitoring performance to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and reliability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with planning, production, and commercial teams to align purchasing activities with business needs and strategic goals.
- Support the development of operational buying processes, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and system enhancements.
Required Experience and Skils:
- Strong buying or procurement experience
- Exceptional Stakeholder Management skills
- Strong Planning, Organisational and Time Management skills
- Strong Analytical skills with a methodical approach to Problem Solving
- Influencing, communication, presentation and negotiating skills, both internally and externally
- Flexible and capable of working in a complex environment
- Ability to build and maintain rapport with internal and external customers / suppliers
- Strong Excel and Microsoft office suite skills
- Commercial awareness to make appropriate decisions balancing potentially conflicting commercial and technical drivers
Inclusion statement
Outsource UK is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. You'll receive consideration for your application without regard to race, religion or belief, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or age.
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