Purchasing Manager

AVD Appoint Ltd; England; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Job summary

AVD Appoint Ltd is seeking a Purchasing Manager for a hybrid role in Cornwall. You will head the purchasing function, manage two buyers, and own sourcing strategies including imports from Europe and the Far East.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, quality control of incoming goods, and the development of purchasing processes within a growing organisation. The position offers a strong career path with UK-wide impact.

Qualifications

• Experience as Purchasing/Procurement/Supply Chain Manager in construction, engineering, or manufacturing.
• Experience with importing and supplier relations.
• Experience leading a small team (e.g., two buyers) and defining purchasing processes.

Responsibilities

• Head up the purchasing department and oversee day-to-day buying activities.
• Manage two buyers and take hands-on responsibility for purchasing within the business.
• Handle imports from Europe and the Far East; visit suppliers as needed.
• Lead quality control on non-conforming products and perform root cause analysis to resolve issues.

Skills

Purchasing management

Importing experience

Supply chain leadership

Job description

Purchasing Manager - Cornwall (Hybrid) - up to 60,000 + Benefits - REF 2061

I am currently recruiting for a Purchasing Manager to work for a leading engineering organisation based in Cornwall (Hybrid). Salary up to 60,000 + Benefits.

The organisation has been established for over 35 years and has an incredible reputation in the market positioning them as one of the UK's leading suppliers of their highly specialist products.

To support the ambitious, but realistic growth plans of the business they have created a completely new role within their business and have the need to appoint a Purchasing Manager on a permanent basis.

In this role a Purchasing Manager, you will be responsible for heading up a purchasing department and will be managing 2 other Buyers as well as being hands on within the role. You will take complete responsibility for Purchasing within the business and will be integral to defining how the department operates. You will be dealing with day to day buying, specifically with regards to imports from their suppliers in Europe and the Far East. This could involve supplier visits from time to time, but isn't necessary if the travel element doesn't appeal. The other aspect of the role would be looking at Quality control relating to the non conformance of products that come in and conducting necessary root cause analysis on them to establish the issue and then following up with the supplier to resolve the issue. It's a very high volume role with circa 20,000 SKU's.

Essential Requirements:

• Previous experience as a Purchasing Manager, Procurement Manager, Supply Chain Manager or similar
• Previous experience in the Construction, Engineering or Manufacturing sectors
• Experience dealing with Importing

Desirable Requirements:

• MCIPS
• Experience dealing with consumables

This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for a Purchasing Manager to join a very exciting business that have projects throughout the whole of the UK. They pride themselves on operating at the forefront of their market and with the growth plans the have forecast, this role could further develop into a position of great seniority in time should this appeal.