Strategic Buyer
Crewe Permanent £ Competitive + Excellent Benefits Ref: 408293
The Company
Nigel Wright Group are delighted to be partnering exclusively with a highly successful design-led manufacturing business in the Cheshire area to recruit a Strategic Buyer to support their next phase of growth and expansion.
The Client will support a condensed 4 day working week!
The Opportunity
Working within a newly formed team the Strategic Buyer will have specific raw materials' commodity and project procurement responsibilities:
- Commodity and project budget management responsibility
- Focused on PPV, supplier consolidation and contract management
- Liaising with/building relationships with longstanding suppliers – performance management
- New sourcing
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders regards key NPI activity
- Mentoring junior buyers
About You
The ideal Strategic Buyer will have/be:
- Directs procurement experience gained from within Engineering/Project based manufacturing/automotive sectors
- Strengths in negotiation, contract and supplier relationship management
- Commercially minded, strategic, ambitious to progress – personality and potential to grow
- Tenacious, assertive and confident communicator with real ‘get up and go’ – able to build relationships with ease
- Experience of supporting NPI projects beneficial
