Buyer

Materials Analysis is an Oxford Instruments Business Unit that manages our Electron Microscopy and Mechanical Microscopy products, Atomic Force Microscopes, Raman Microscopes and Benchtop NMR Products. We are part of the wider Oxford Instruments Group that also includes Andor Technology, NanoScience, Plasma Technology and X-Ray Technology. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

We are seeking a Buyer to join our operations team in High Wycombe. As a buyer your role is to order direct or indirect materials and services; management of nominated suppliers and to take responsibility for placing Purchase Orders, managing the open order lines, and expediting orders as required, as well as supporting tactical and operational effective supply chain through, maintenance/ housekeeping of MRP system.

Location:

We are based in High Wycombe (Cressex) and have hybrid working, which is 3 days in the office, with 2 days at home. Our working week is 37 hours, with flexible working hours and 12:30 Friday finishes.

Working at Oxford Instruments Materials Analysis - What’s in it for you?

Wellbeing –

• Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays and the option to purchase up to 12 weeks more

• Employee Assistance Programme; including 24/7 telephone support, access to counselling, financial and debt management and access to trained legal advisors
• Private health insurance, dental insurance and life assurance

Money & lifestyle –

• MyDiscounts; save money with a number of leading retailers

• Car salary exchange scheme: sacrifice part of your salary in exchange for a fully serviced, comprehensive insured electric or hybrid vehicle
• TechScheme and CycleScheme: Purchase a bike and/or Tech or home goods from Currys/IKEA and spread the cost over 12 months.
• Pension; all employees are eligible to join the Group Pension Plan administered by AVIVA.
• Share incentive plan: Invest in your future and share in the success of the company by joining the share incentive plan.

Development –

• Encouragement and support to achieve professional and or academic qualifications to support your development and growth
• Defined career paths and regular reviews

About you:

• Ability to effectively analyse and present numerical data.
• Good communication skills with people at all levels.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Working knowledge and use of ERP or MRP for purchasing, scheduling, and forecasting.
• Ability to understand and negotiate commercial terms (particularly price).
• Experience within a Buying role
• Growth Mindset; someone who exercises curiosity and enjoys seeking knowledge
• Commercial awareness
• Creativity
• Critical Mindset
• Acts with pace
• Self motivated; takes pride in their responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Site purchasing of materials and services to ensure optimal cost and delivery.
• Communicate regularly with key suppliers, learn about procured categories, and identify potential improvements.
• Assess new and existing suppliers for relationship building or reducing business.
• Work with Operations Teams to implement, maintain and develop Kanban, VMI and other JIT delivery systems to control levels of inventory and satisfy parts availability.
• Prepare all relevant supply chain documentation for quotations, incl. SOPs & test documentation where applicable.
• Provide early warning of supply chain component risks, highlighting these and communicating to management.
• Participate in contract development with key suppliers.
• Support supply chain to ensure new parts for projects are available for prototype, pre-production and product launch.
• Daily review of MRP systems requirements, challenging messages that appear unusual.
• Develop and manage vendor relationships with the objective of developing Quality, Cost and Delivery performance.
• Distribute vendor Balanced Scorecard reports (Quality/Delivery/Cost) to achieve best practice targets.
• Assist in MRB & Vendor Return process.
• Build relationships with OI Group Operations personnel and other site Buyers.
• Any other tasks associated with this role but not necessarily mentioned within this profile

Next steps:

If you’d like to learn more before applying, or have any questions please contact abby.gelder@oxinst.com. Applicants will be reviewed as quickly as possible, with successful applicants being invited to a Teams call to learn more about the role. Our interviews will consist of a psychometric test, and a 2 stage process, which will be held on-site at our office.

Equal opportunities and reasonable adjustments:

Oxford Instruments is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Oxford Instruments is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment. Please get in touch if you require any reasonable adjustments within the interview process.

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