Strategic Buyer in Redruth

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Pall Corporation, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we're all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. By harnessing Danaher's system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact - innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to paper - everyday Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improve product quality, minimize emissions and waste, and safeguard health. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world.

In This Role, You Will Have The Opportunity To:

• Establish long-term purchase orders/contracts in SAP
• Approve Purchase Orders below a given threshold
• Maintain up-to-date Purchasing Information Records
• Manage source lists in accordance with commodity strategy and supplier quality guidance
• Maintain vendor master data to enable and streamline tactical PO placement
• Manage overall vendor communication
• Negotiate and mitigate price increase requests
• Maintain favourable payment terms
• Participate in supplier visits and meetings as required
• Conduct supplier rationalization, development and transition (outsourcing, insourcing, vendor-to-vendor)
• Identify, execute, and sustain projects in support of the Global Commodity Strategy
• Add and maintain projects in the iSource Project Management Tool
• Pursue Pall Industrial Sourcing KPI targets such as Purchase Price Change (PPC), Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Supplier Days Payable Outstanding (DPO), Value Analysis Value Engineering (VAVE), Supplier On-Time Delivery (OTD), e-Auctions, Requests for Quotations (RFQs) and Purchase Volume (PVO)
• Support the ongoing Sourcing Visual Management Process to meet project timelines and maintain cross-functional accountability
• Support, monitor, and mentor the site materials team members
• Work in accordance with escalation procedures to mitigate disruptive material shortages
• Ensure purchasing policies and strategies are understood and implemented
• Partner with site-level stakeholders (Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, etc.) to facilitate project completion
• Interface with the Materials Team to align manufacturing site inputs/requirements with the commodity strategy

Essential Requirements Of The Job Include:

• Educated to A-level standard, professional qualification - CIPS or equivalent experience in a similar role
• Experience with MRP systems such as SAP, Excel, PowerPoint and supplier databases
• Aerospace and/or manufacturing site experience is advantageous

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel nationally and internationally, up to once per month as required
• Valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record

Pall Corporation, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health-care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.