Senior Buyer - 12 month contract

About Your New Employer

• Join a high-performing, team-based organization where colleagues are flexible, multi-skilled, and empowered to make decisions.
• Be part of a company that relentlessly pursues bold science to translate genetic discoveries into new medicines that advance the future of human health.
• Work in a dynamic environment that values initiative, energy, and motivation.

About Your New Job

• Develop & Execute the Materials Requirement Plan (MRP): Ensure efficient and effective procurement & inventory practices, optimizing the balance between quality, service, reliability, and cost.
• Maintain Inventory Levels: Ensure raw material and consumable inventories are within target, minimizing excess, obsolete, and expired materials.
• Supplier Management: Liaise with suppliers to clarify potential plan constraints and interfaces, ensuring issue resolution and timely delivery.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build effective team and cross-functional relationships internally and with global functions.
• Continuous Improvement: Focus on and encourage continuous improvements of the process being supported, including MRP signal improvement initiatives.

What Skills You Need

• Education: Minimum of an Honor's Degree (NFQ level 8) in Supply Chain Management or other related Business discipline.
• Experience: Minimum of 7 years relevant Supply Chain Management experience, with experience in Planning/Purchasing in a pharmaceutical environment.
• Technical Skills: Experience with SAP is essential. Knowledge of Power BI or similar data analytics visual tools is desirable.
• Certifications: Supply Chain Certification (e.g., APICS) preferred. Project Management or Lean Certification is desirable.
• GMP Environment: Experience working in a GMP environment for a minimum of 3 years.

What’s on Offer

• Competitive Salary: Attractive compensation package.
• Career Development: Opportunities for growth and progression to levels of increasing responsibility.
• Dynamic Work Environment: Hybrid work model with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite in Ringaskiddy, Cork.

What’s Next

Apply now by clicking the “Apply Now" button or call Ross Keyes on 091749269 for more information. If the job isn’t quite right but you are looking for something similar, please get in touch. We also have multiple Temp, FTC, and Contract jobs available.