Senior Buyer

Elevation Recruitment Group is proud to be supporting a growing manufacturing business in Dudley that is looking to recruit a Senior Buyer to join their team.

• Full-time, Monday to Friday (Flexi time)
• 25 days annual leave plus stats
• On-site parking
• Assessing current procurement and planning practices, identifying gaps against best practice, and designing the processes, controls and documentation the division needs
• Leading the shift from manual, informal ways of working to structured, repeatable processes
• Developing and managing strategic supplier partnerships and leading category negotiations
• Taking hands‑on ownership of procurement and inventory management, working closely with operations
• Owning supply and demand planning, building and maintaining manual planning tools such as reorder points, Kanban and spreadsheet‑based plans
• Managing supplier performance through regular reviews, challenging on delivery, quality and execution
• Identifying cost savings and formulating annual plans for designated spend categories

• Significant experience across purchasing and supply chain within a manufacturing environment
• Strong working knowledge of ERP or MRP systems, with substantial hands‑on experience in manual supply and demand planning
• Advanced Excel skills

Elevation Recruitment Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy that helps people build long-term, successful careers. We work across a wide range of industries and disciplines with a focus on making recruitment feel more human, more honest and more effective. We are specialists in every function and experts in every hire.