Buyer in Runcorn

Yokogawa UK has a key opportunity for a highly motivated Buyer to join our existing talented team. You will be a confident communicator and a positive self-starter, ideally having gained experience within the service/engineering industry. Reporting to the Procurement Manager, your primary focus will be to provide commercial procurement support to our valued stakeholders and customers at Yokogawa UK. This is a diverse role and requires you to optimise the supply base, improve sourcing value, secure supply, ensure procurement controls compliance and drive procurement sustainability for our Project Procurement Supply Categories.

Your remit as Project Buyer will include:

• Deliver procurement support across project requirements and the traditional operational needs of the business
• Manage and deliver project procurement requests from stakeholders, supporting revenue and profit generation for Yokogawa UK
• Support project site set‑up activities, including welfare and temporary facilities procurement
• Develop, implement and manage call‑off and frame agreements with key suppliers
• Build, maintain and leverage partnerships with preferred and existing suppliers
• Manage supplier set‑up, due diligence and ongoing supplier performance measurement
• Plan and execute day‑to‑day procurement activities for stakeholders, including:

• Defining Requests for Quotation (RFQs) using functional and or technical specifications provided by line management or stakeholders
• Managing the RFQ process, issuing RFQs, collecting bids, coordinating technical evaluations and completing commercial and total cost evaluations
• Managing supplier contract administration and lifecycle activities
• Managing purchase order escalation in line with agreed frame agreements and technical and commercial requirements
• Controlling and expediting procurement and supply activities to ensure goods and services are delivered in line with agreed timescales, terms and conditions

About your skills:

• CIPS qualified or working towards / willingness to undertake qualification
• Business Degree is desirable although not essential
• Proven technical/project procurement experience
• You will be conversant with the procurement to pay process, including supplier selection, tendering, negotiation and contracting, as well as supplier onboarding and supplier management principles
• Experienced with MS Office applications
• SAP experience preferred
• Stress-resistant with high attention to detail
• You have high integrity and ethics, with a passion for learning. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and negotiation skills coupled with good verbal and written communication skills

What we promise to offer:

• Freedom to do your job as autonomy is important to us
• Exciting challenges within a mature organization that demands a high degree of individual responsibility and promotes initiatives
• A fun working atmosphere with various opportunities to work with awesome colleagues all over the world
• Innovative and advanced high-technology products and services
• Career development opportunities within an international environment
• Competitive salary and incentive package depending on experience.
• Standard working hours are Monday to Thursday 8:30am to 5:00pm, Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm. Flexibility will be required to meet customer and business needs
• Superb benefits including company pension contribution up to 12.5% dependent upon criteria, private medical insurance and healthcare scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with increments based on length of service

This is a permanent position, with our offices based at Runcorn. We provide a healthy work-life balance with a blend of working from home and the office. There may be a requirement to travel to customer sites in Europe, the UK, offshore and overseas as required.

Due to the nature of our business, please be advised at the offer of employment stage we will carry out Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Education, Employment and Right to Work checks on all candidates. An assessment may be part of the procedure. If you require any adjustments during the application process or employment, please let us know.

At Yokogawa we believe that our employees are crucial to our success. To help you maximize your potential, we offer an environment that actively encourages personal development and continuous learning (through internal and external trainings such as the leadership academy and sales academy, internal mobility, etc.)

Not just a job, but a career

Yokogawa, award winner for ‘Best Asset Monitoring Technology’ and ‘Best Digital Twin Technology’ at the HP Awards, is a leading provider of industrial automation, test and measurement, information systems and industrial services in several industries. Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition, (bio)technology, artificial intelligence, industrial cybersecurity, etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.

About the Team

Our 18,000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission, to "co-innovate tomorrow". We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our planet. In return, we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.

Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive culture

Yokogawa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Yokogawa wants a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture. We will actively recruit, develop, and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience, knowledge, thinking styles, perspective, cultural background, and socioeconomic status. We will not discriminate based on race, skin color, age, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, belief, political opinion, nationality, ethnicity, place of origin, disability, family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong, contribute, succeed, and demonstrate their full potential.