Graduate Buyer
CDE is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive scheduling buyer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for managing procurement activities with a strong focus on production scheduling and material availability. You will collaborate closely with suppliers, production planners, and internal stakeholders to ensure the timely delivery of goods and services, optimise inventory levels, and maintain alignment with production schedules
About the role
Deliver procurement category excellence and provide procurement expertise in sourcing, contracts, and productivity to support a resilient supply chain strategy. Drive continuous improvement in procurement by optimising category cost-saving and avoidance opportunities, consolidating tail spend, and maximizing value in quality and overall service level from the supply base.
In line with the manufacturing planning schedule, ensure all purchase orders required for manufacturing are available when required and are delivered to the correct locations.
Identify strategic spending, and develop long-term contractual business relationship with key strategic suppliers
Monitor and communicate with suppliers on on-time in full deliveries; ensure 95% OTIF delivery with key suppliers.
Ensure IFS compliance/adherence of all procurement-related tasks, but particularly updating purchase order delivery dates promptly to allow for real-time reporting.
To support and maintain supplier relationships, to include managing capacities and performances with the supplier to help them meet their set kpi’s and targets.
Actively maintain correct standard purchase part inventory in compliance with company policy. Including updating min/max and reordering quantity, implementing the strategy set by the business.
Attend relevant meetings to represent the operations scheduling team on OTD and report progress to various teams promptly. Investigate and initiate corrective actions for reported issues with OTD, missing parts, stock-out parts, part duplication, or any other issues hindering job closure.
Adherence to the Company Health and Safety Policy.
Any other duties within reason and capability associated with this role.
What you will need
Required criteria
- Educated to degree level in a business-related discipline.
CDE Group
WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.
We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.