Buyer

Manpower Group (UK); Gloucester; On-site; GBP 71,635 - 82,656; Full time

Job summary

Manpower Group (UK) in Gloucester seeks a Buyer for a 3-month assignment. You will negotiate with dedicated suppliers to secure favourable terms while ensuring internal customer satisfaction.

You will own your work quality and support the team within policy and routine processes. Role focuses on supplier strategy, negotiations, and execution of standard enabling activities with coordination across teams, including engineering manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Requires experience in sourcing and commodity management.
• Experience in engineering manufacturing is essential.
• Knowledge level comparable to a bachelor's degree or equivalent workplace experience.

Responsibilities

• Define supplier strategy including management and optimization of supplier panels.
• Lead negotiations and allocate needs to specific suppliers; negotiate terms.
• Transmit information to Procurement; manage related commercial sourcing activities and data analysis.
• Resolves issues within established procedures and seeks guidance for out-of-policy items.
• Build strong customer relationships and serve as interface between customer and GE.
• Explain and convey technical information to others.

Skills

Supplier strategy

Negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Role: Buyer

Location: Gloucester

Duration: 3 months

Rate: £53/hour

Inside IR35: Umbrella

As a buyer, you'll have responsibility for negotiating with dedicated providers according to specific policies. You'll achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction. You'll have ownership over the quality of your own work and the work of others on the team. You'll be focused on the execution of standard enabling activities/provision of advice subject to policy and work routines within an enabling discipline. There may be some latitude to rearrange the sequence to complete task/duties based on changing situations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define supplier strategy including management and optimization of supplier panels. This role requires experience gained within sourcing and commodity management.
• Experience gained with engineering manufacturing is essential.
• Lead negotiations and allocate needs to specific suppliers. Negotiate terms and conditions and transmit information to Procurement.
• Manage claims. Includes commercial sourcing management such as data analysis, negotiations support, etc. This may also include purchasing activities.
• Broadening knowledge of theories, practices and procedures in own discipline to execute functional policy/strategy; still developing functional knowledge and skills.
• Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• Resolves issues in situations that require good knowledge and judgment within established procedures.
• Consults more senior team members for issues outside of defined policy/parameters.
• A job at this level requires good interpersonal skills.
• For customer facing roles, develops strong customer relationships and serves as the interface between customer and GE.
• Ability to explain and convey technical information to others.

Required Qualifications

• This role requires experience gained within sourcing and commodity management.
• Experience gained with engineering manufacturing is essential.
• Knowledge level is comparable to a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent workplace experience.