What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at Rotork?
Company Description
Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow of liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide.
Job Description
To work with Suppliers to schedule and expedite material for delivery at the right time to achieve the production schedule and the customer requirements. Actioning daily exception messages, maintaining system parameters and ensuring deliveries are received on time in full whilst maintaining the optimum levels of inventory.
- Responsible for actioning all MRP exception messages on a daily basis.
- Review ERP recommendations to prepare, validate and schedule purchase orders to achieve optimal level of material availability.
- Utilise inventory tools and techniques to ensure right sizing of inventory availability.
- Manage inventory levels and check for any potential risks to supply, escalate to Supply Chain Engineer (Supplier) and support with the action plan to recovery.
- Manage inventory levels and escalate any concerns with potential overstocks.
- Build relationships with suppliers ensuring the deliveries are received on time in full, participating in Supplier On Time
Delivery activities
- Pro-actively expedite against forward customer orderbook and take ownership for reactive expediting to customer and production shortages.
- Ensuring status of all purchase orders with suppliers are up to date and closed in a timely manner.
- Manage delivery quantity invoice queries and problem resolution.
- Support the Supply Chain Engineer (Supplier) with supplier development activities.
- Maintain and manage the master data within the ERP system ensuring all data is in line with the agreements made by the centre-led sourcing team.
- Escalate any communication from the Suppliers advising of a change to the contractual agreements.
- Weekly reporting on material availability, supplier delivery performance and premium freight.
- Monthly financial reporting on stock and accruals, slow and non-moving stock and material usage.
- Responsible for Supply Chain Metrics inclusive of Customer OTD, Factory Plan Attainment and shortages to plan, Goods in Transit and Raw Material Inventory, Slow and Non-Moving Stock, New Value accuracy and Absolutely quantity accuracy, Rio Rate.
- Responsible for external storage and premium freight costs.
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Qualifications
- Experience in the use of ERP systems.
- Experience with and sound knowledge of the basics of inventory management.
- Good level of IT understanding, including use of common tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
- Experience in inventory and material control within a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent relationship building and communication skills.
- Good attention to detail, with a methodical and logical analytical approach.
Additional Information
Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.
For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends.
Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably.
Rotork is going through an exciting period of change and growth, building on our existing market success. It's a great time to join us and make an impact in shaping the future of our business.