Elevation Recruitment Group
Senior Buyer
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Senior Buyer
Location: Pudsey/Hybrid
Highly Competitive Salary
Elevation Recruitment Group is proud to be partnering with an established engineering business in Pudsey that is looking to recruit a Senior Buyer to join their team.
This is a newly created role due to growth, as the business has many exciting projects planned. This role will suit someone from a technical manufacturing/engineering background with the ability to interpret drawings.
Working Hours / Key Benefits:
- 35 hours per week with a 12pm finish every Friday!
- Hybrid working (WFH on a Friday)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Company bonus scheme
- Pension (up to 6% employer contribution)
- Life insurance (2 x salary)
- CIPS study support and development
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Duties & Responsibilities of the Senior Buyer:
- Sourcing and purchasing materials, components and services to meet production schedules and project deadlines
- Interpreting engineering and fabrication drawings to support accurate procurement activity
- Ensuring compliance with ASME codes and full material traceability
- Managing the RFQ process, supplier evaluations and contract negotiations
- Creating purchasing bills of materials and maintaining accurate system data
- Managing enquiries for spares, preparing quotations, raising purchase orders and handling import and export documentation
- Planning stock checks, maintaining Kanban levels and reducing excess or obsolete stock
- Conducting supplier segmentation, performance monitoring and relationship management
- Identifying and onboarding new suppliers, including low cost country sourcing where appropriate
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The Person
- Experience within a technical manufacturing or engineering environment
- Strong MS Excel skills
- Commercial awareness and strong negotiation skills
- The ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
About Elevation
Elevation Recruitment Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy that helps people build long term, successful careers. We work across a wide range of industries and disciplines with a focus on making recruitment feel more human, more honest and more effective. We are specialists in every function and experts in every hire. Check out our website to find out more.
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