Senior Operational Buyer

Your role

As a Senior Operational Buyer, your mission is to ensure a consistent and sustainable supply of raw materials to meet production demands and support the sites’ production schedule. They play a key role in developing operational buying capabilities through supplier management, process improvement, and team collaboration to strengthen the department’s ability to support business needs. You will be reporting to the Supply Chain Team Leader.

• Manage the procurement of raw materials to ensure consistent supply aligned with production schedules.
• Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships, negotiating terms and monitoring performance to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and reliability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with planning, production, and commercial teams to align purchasing activities with business needs and strategic goals.
• Support the development of operational buying processes, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and system enhancements.
• Mentor and support Buyers, sharing knowledge and best practices to build a resilient and capable operational buying team.
• Generate and analyse Supply Chain KPIs to drive continuous improvement in service levels and inventory performance.

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.

• Strong Stakeholder Management skills:
  Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels within the business, utilising effective verbal and written communication
• Strong Planning, Organisational and Time Management skills
• Strong Analytical skills with a methodical approach to Problem Solving
• Influencing, communication, presentation and negotiating skills, both internally and externally
• Flexible and capable of working in a complex environment
• Ability to build and maintain rapport with internal and external customers / Suppliers
• Strongly proficient in Outlook and Microsoft Office, with excellent Excel skills
• Commercial awareness to make appropriate decisions balancing potentially conflicting commercial and technical drivers

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Hybrid

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).

Talent Acquisition Team:
Luke Aldom

Edwards is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, exhaust management systems and related value‑added services. Edwards solutions are integral to manufacturing processes for semiconductors, flat panel displays, LEDs and solar cells. They are also used within an increasingly diverse range of industrial processes including power, glass and other coating applications; steel and other metallurgy; pharmaceutical and chemical; and for scientific instruments in a wide range of R&D applications.

Edwards has over 4,000 employees worldwide engaged in the design, manufacture and support of high technology vacuum and exhaust management equipment. Edwards has state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America.