Purchasing Manager

Purchasing Manager, Brackley, £35,000 - £45,000 + Benefits

Are you an established Purchasing Manager with a strong analytical mindset? Are you looking for a new opportunity where you can play a pivotal part in the strategic development of the purchasing strategy?

Then we have the role for you!

This is a new role within a fantastic business who are keen to continue their growth and see this being a significant piece in the puzzle. You'll work cross-functionally with different areas of the business on all things purchasing-related, including strategic reviews of SKU range to drive maximum efficiency.

So what will be involved in the role?

If you've worked as a Purchasing Manager or even a Senior Buyer before you'll have a good idea of what the role entails, and more importantly - what good looks like. Using your analytical and strong Excel skills you'll review and manipulate historical sales data to inform decision making on SKU ranges.

In this role you'll also provide day to day line-management and guidance to one person in the purchasing team, however previous experience of managing a team is not essential.

As you'll likely know, supplier relationships are key in any purchasing function and this role is no different. Given your relationship building experience, you'll work collaboratively with key suppliers to ensure consistency of supply despite the challenging economic climate!

Based in Brackley, the role is typically Monday to Friday and the business offer a flexible working arrangement across office and home working.

So… what's in it for you?

The opportunity to join a company in an exciting period of growth. You will be given the scope to really influence change and help drive the business to achieve it's ambitious goals.

What are we looking for?

In this role you'll need have a strong analytical mindset, with proven history of strategically reviewing purchasing strategies.

With the nature of the role, coming from a background working in multiple lines, high volume environment such as FMCG, GNFR etc would work well.

Coming from a strong purchasing background, you should be able to demonstrate strong

Excel skills - experience using Oracle/ SAP would also be great

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