Supply Chain Operational Buyer in Abercynon

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Role Overview: We require a Buyer to join our busy Purchasing team, based at our site in Abercynon South Wales. Reporting to the Supply Chain Lead, the purpose of this role is to ensure reliable, on-time, and fully available material supply from suppliers to our manufacturing site. The role owns supplier selection, supplier execution, shortage management, and mid-term supply assurance, ensuring materials arrive to the factory at the right time, in the right quantity, to the right quality and right cost to support production, and kitting requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Supplier Selection and Benchmarking: Work with key stakeholders to identify new suppliers and progress through supplier selection process.
• Purchase Order & Logistics Execution: Ensure accuracy and timely release of purchase orders to suppliers. Monitor order confirmations, shipment status, and delivery compliance. Coordinate logistics activities as required to meet delivery requirements.
• Supplier Delivery Performance Management: Own and build day-to-day operational relationships with suppliers. Ensure that all action messages are reviewed and actioned in a timely manner. Drive supplier recovery actions when performance falls below required levels.
• Supply Assurance & Risk Management: Identify risks in inbound supply. Work cross functionally to mitigate risks. Manage escalation processes for critical materials impacting production.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Production Planning to ensure alignment between supply plans and supplier capabilities. Collaborate with SIOP to communicate supplier capacity limits and constraints.
• Continuous Improvement & Performance Tracking: Maintain supplier KPIs. Lead supplier performance reviews and drive corrective actions.
• Inventory Management: Play an active part in managing inventory levels.
• Material Management: Ensure all appropriate systems are up to date and valid with regards purchasing and material management data.
• Any Other Duties Where Directed.

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes:

• Technical Skills: Strong understanding of purchasing, inbound supply management, logistics flows, and supplier operations.
• Experience: Experience in supply chain, supplier management, materials management, and logistics coordination.
• Soft Skills: Strong communication and influence with both internal teams and external suppliers. Problem-solving mindset with ability to manage escalations under time pressure.

What We Offer:

• Enhanced pension contributions
• Healthcare cashback plan
• Employee assistance programme
• Free Fruit Tuesdays
• Sharesave
• Site incentive plan
• Financial wellbeing benefit
• Discounted online and high street shopping and lifestyle vouchers
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounted RAC membership
• Discounted Gym membership at local leisure centres
• Specsavers vouchers
• 183.75 hours annual leave plus bank holidays
• A supportive and friendly working environment with a focus on wellbeing and sustainability

TT Electronics are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. Please be aware that many roles at TT Electronics are subject to both security and export control restrictions which means that limitations relating to nationality may apply.