Role: Buyer
Location: Newport
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £32,000 - £37,000
Hours: Monday - Friday 37 hours per week (Onsite)
Key Responsibilities:*Responsible for maintaining assigned supplier relations by selecting suppliers and negotiating prices for material and/or services required, so ensuring procurement of nominated materials and services to agreed programmes by the most economic, timely and efficient means
*Analyse, negotiate and report supplier price changes
*Conduct periodic commodity surveys to obtain price comparisons; evaluate market trends to develop new services and create cost savings
*Responsible for forecasting market trends affecting material and service availability costs, raw material and products
*Select new and alternative sources of supply and in collaboration with technical staff select new and alternative materials and services, providing technical and/or commercial advantage to the company
*Ensure all purchasing requisitions and programmes are correct and reflect the current supplier’s lead-times, keeping management and user departments informed where changes threaten work programmes
*Identify potential problem areas and recommend changes
*Follow up on rejected material and obtain necessary credit
*Minimise the company’s exposure with regard to MOQ’s and price increases, obtaining the relevant authority levels
*Proactive liaison with other departments as necessary to forecast, plan to meet, and to supply demand to relevant quality
*Meeting health & safety requirements
*Ensure compliance with company codes of conduct
*Administration and reporting as required
*Payment terms negotiation, optimisation and management
*International trading issues/imports/legal, awareness
*To identify & drive continuous improvements within the areas of control
*Control and minimise excess and cost / stock.


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