A fantastic opportunity for a career driven Buyer to join a successful manufacturing business based in East Leeds. My client has a turnover of over £10 million and following successful growth in recent years is keen to develop their procurement strategy, creating a new role for a Buyer within the wholesale/sporting background to analyse the volume of spend, procurement processes and supplier portfolio.

The successful candidate will be tasked with rationalising the suppliers, consolidating spend and introducing robust processes to ensure they are maximising cost saving opportunities. The ideal candidates will demonstrate excellent attention to detail, strong negotiation skills and the ability to influence and drive best practice. The incumbent will be expected to build collaborative supplier relationships, ensuring quality, cost and lead times are in line with business objectives. You will be confident in communicating at all levels and willing to deal with end-to-end purchasing including administrative tasks.

Key Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Sourcing globally, ensuring best market value
• Rationalise suppliers, building a manageable vendor portfolio
• Working closely with engineering and production to ensure materials and parts are correctly sourced in line with technical specifications
• Ensuring stock availability whilst maintaining safety stock levels in line with order book
• Negotiating costs and SLA’s in line with business requirements

Elevation Procurement & Supply Chain would be keen to speak with candidates who have the following skills and experiences:

• Ideally CIPS qualified
• Minimum 3 years Procurement experience, within a manufacturing environment
• Experience of working with international supplier would be advantageous
• Ability to negotiate and agree contractual terms
• Excellent supplier management skills

Elevation Procurement & Supply Chain is a specialist division of Elevation Recruitment focusing on engineering, operational and technical positions in Yorkshire and surrounding regions. If you match the specified criteria and are interested in discussing the position in more detail, we would love to hear from you.