Buyer - Maternity Cover
Posted 1 day 12 hours ago by Taylor Wimpey
Working alongside other Departments and the Group Procurement Team to ensure the product is available for Taylor Wimpey Business Units (TW BU) orders in a timely manner, whilst keeping inventory levels within agreed limits.
Primary Responsibilities- Work closely with the Planning Manager, Procurement Team and suppliers to ensure the demand plan is robust and contains the most up-to-date business information.
- Analyzing the forecast and identifying risks and opportunities within the business, making challenges and proposing changes; able to efficiently elevate issues.
- Identifying root causes for demand errors and supporting BU's to address them.
- Raise PO's to ensure stock is available to cover known customer demand and contingent stock for short lead orders (loose supply).
- Support continuous improvement initiatives for the stock team, inventory management process and systems to develop efficiencies and support future growth.
- Train new starters on the process (upstream and downstream), share best practices and collaborate with other departments as necessary.
- Assist the Planning Manager with identifying and managing obsolete stock.
- Updating and distributing KPI reports.
- Work collaboratively with the Planning Manager and CI Manager to help streamline processes to improve stock availability.
- Previous experience in the Housebuilding industry.
- Self motivated and able to work autonomously.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Knowledge of Sage X3/COINs.
- Experience in SIOP/materials planning.
- Excellent retail discounts.
- Company funded life insurance.
- Private healthcare.
- Quality pension scheme with company contributions.
- Discounted house purchase scheme.
- Car leasing scheme.
- Share plans.
- Opportunity to tailor your benefit package (e.g., extra annual leave, adding dependants).
- Industry leading professional training and development.
As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.