Project Buyer - Fixed Term 12 months

CDE Global Ltd; Cookstown; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Buyer to support procurement activities at a project level. This role involves ensuring that purchase orders align with project schedules while collaborating closely with various teams to mitigate delays. The ideal candidate will have a degree in a business-related discipline and at least two years of experience in purchasing within a manufacturing environment. Join a forward-thinking company that values employee well-being and offers opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic work environment. If you are passionate about procurement and want to make a significant impact, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a purchasing function in a manufacturing environment.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and modern ERP/MRP systems.

Responsibilities

• Support procurement activities at a project level, ensuring purchase orders align with the project schedule.
• Liaise with the Scheduling Team to place purchase orders and manage project timelines.
• Represent Procurement in project meetings to communicate updates to stakeholders.

Skills

Purchasing

Project Management

Communication

Problem Solving

Flexibility

Education

Degree in Business-related Discipline

Tools

ERP/MRP System

Microsoft Office

IFS System

Job description

CDE Group Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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About CDE
CDE exists to create our best world through bold engineering in the waste recycling and natural material processing industries. We move forward together, continuously creating to the highest global standards. We are always customer-focused, relentlessly innovating with a single purpose in mind:

To create our best world, a ton at a time.
CDE is the leading provider of wet processing solutions for the materials processing industry. Our equipment has applications across a wide range of materials and is delivering significant efficiencies in construction, demolition and excavation waste recycling (CD&E), sand and aggregates, mining, industrial sands and environmental sectors. Working across five regions globally, CDE has been co-creating with customers for 30 years to deliver collaborative, imaginative and unique processing systems for over 2,000 successful projects.

We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. And we help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before.

Our people are genuinely empowered to lead and deliver highly strategic and innovative projects. Elevating our employees is vitally important to us and we do this on both a professional and personal level through providing opportunity and challenge to all and cultivating a culture that values employee wellbeing and fun. Our Platinum status in the world-recognised Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards, achieved for thirteen consecutive years is testament to this approach.

Our global headquarters and manufacturing centre of excellence are located in Northern Ireland, perfectly positioned to serve the UK and Ireland markets. The company also has teams based in Austria, France, and Russia to serve the Europe and Russia markets; Dubai, UAE, to serve the MEA market; Ormeau, Australia to serve the Australasian market; as well as Texas, USA and Belo Horizonte, Brazil to effectively serve the vast Americas market.

About The Role

Job Purpose:
Support the procurement activities at a Project level, ensuring the purchase orders are aligned to the project schedule and working with the wider teams to mitigate any delays to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Be the point of contact for the Head of Supply Chain on any procurement related queries with Projects.
• Liaise with the Scheduling Team to ensure purchase orders are placed in line with the project schedule, raising the necessary schedule change requests when required.
• Work closely with the Scheduling Team to understand supplier capacities to identify suppliers with the necessary capacity to meet the project lead time.
• Represent and lead Procurement in the Clear to Promise (CTP) review, using the MRP data to highlight priorities.
• Update and complete project tasks, review SCRs raised by scheduling team, raise SCRs on behalf of scheduling team where required.
• Represent the Procurement Team in the Project Status meeting to communicate the procurement updates to all stakeholders.
• Need to have attendance at Kick Off Meetings for new Projects, weekly/bi-weekly meetings with ProMan Team to discuss procurement issues and manage project close out from a procurement view.
• Day to day procurement activities as required.
• Work alongside planning to support any procurement queries and these will be filtered back to the scheduling and category team.
• Any other appropriate tasks that the company requires.
• Answer Assembly requests and questions regards project readiness, feedback any delays or impact in a proactive manner.
• Continually challenge and improve upon current practices and procedures.

NB: This job description is not exhaustive as other duties may be required to fulfil the requirements of the role.

Skills Needed

Required Criteria

• Educated to degree level in a business-related discipline or
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a purchasing function in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience of working with a modern ERP/MRP 2 system
• Proficient with Microsoft office software
• Available to work flexible hours.
• Right to work in the UK

Desired Criteria

• Part CIPS qualified or similar
• Experience with IFS system

Closing Date: Friday 4th April, 2025

Contract Type: fulltime

Salary: Based on Experience

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Purchasing and Supply Chain

Industries: Machinery Manufacturing