Buyer / Supply Chain Planner

Maternity Cover: January 2026 / up to 12 months

Salary: £34,000 - £36,000

Monday - Thursday: 8:30am-5pm / Friday: 8:30am - 4:30pm

A local manufacturing business are searching for a Buyer / Supply Chain Planner to join their team on a Maternity cover.

Responsibilities:

* Accurately order required volume of products using sales and forecasting available

* The Buyer is responsible for Procurement of production, sales & service materials

* Monitor unavailability and wastage. Contribute actively to reducing both and meeting targets

* Understand importance of 100% availability, including seasonal and promotional activities and investigate all instances of non- and short- delivery to determine with the supplier an agreed plan of action to prevent recurrence

* Build strong, longlasting relationship with all suppliers and other team members.

* Review/approve invoice queries andssist with end of week/month procedures, including supplier credit claims

* Evaluation to determine the most efficient order quantity

* project purchasing resulting in budgeted cost savings

* Liaise with various departments to produce accurate supplier requirement forecasts

* Mange supplier relations, including reviews, monitoring and reporting, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations

* To manage the daily production schedule based on customer orders, availability of materials, manufacturing capacity and creation date of production orders Stock Transport Orders

* Update product availability dates in system

* Communicate plans and forecasts to internal stakeholders

* Prepare and maintain statistics to share with internal stakeholders

* Responsible for identifying and creating the optimisation batches in accordance with the scheduled week (i.e. planning the production workload and identifying the production dates and target dates)

* Supporting the transport team with maintaining vehicles (MOT, insurnaces) and manage any drivers queries

* Schedule customer deliveries with the drivers

Your Experience:

* Experience within a Purchasing role in a manufacturing background is preferable

* Understand of supply chain

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