• Purchase goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Ensure continuous supply of required goods and materials and communicate any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations.
• Research and evaluate areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible.
• Deliver briefs, updates, and reports as and when required.
• Negotiate contracts, improved prices, and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
• Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures and the Official Journal during supplier negotiations and contracts award process.
• Assess tenders and quotations from potential suppliers.
• Prepare purchase orders in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers and in line with organizational targets and requirements.
• Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues People management.
• Work collaboratively and negotiate and engage with stakeholders and suppliers regarding new projects, supplies and initiatives and advise of impact of change on purchasing and production activities.
• Support product change requests and review and communicate the impact on capacity plans
• Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and ensure good communications Self-Management
• Is assertive, optimistic, and open to change. Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working with others
• Strong negotiation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines.
• Proven purchasing experience, preferably within an interior fit-out environment
• Computer literate, to include advanced Excel skills Example roles this job description may cover
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