Project Buyer

Yokogawa UK has a key opportunity for a highly motivated Project Buyer to join our existing talented team. You will be a confident communicator and a positive self-starter, ideally having gained experience within the service/engineering industry.

Reporting to the Procurement Manager, your primary focus will be to provide commercial procurement support to our valued stakeholders and customers at Yokogawa UK.  This is a diverse role and requires you to optimise the supply base, improve sourcing value, secure supply, ensure procurement controls compliance and drive procurement sustainability for our Project Procurement Supply Categories.

Yokogawa's global network of 18 manufacturing facilities, 82 companies and over 650 sales and engineering offices now spans 33 countries. Around 18 000 employees work on all five continents with one corporate mission, to “co-innovate tomorrow”.

Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition, (bio)technology, artificial intelligence, industrial cybersecurity, etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.

For more information about Yokogawa, please visit http://www.yokogawa.com

Your remit as Buyer will include:

• Manage and deliver procurement requests from our stakeholders, needed to generate revenue and profit for our organisation at Yokogawa UK
• Build and leverage partnerships with preferred suppliers

• Support the negotiation, implementation and ongoing management of framework agreements with key suppliers.

• Manage supplier set up & due diligence process

• Monitor supplier performance, support periodic supplier reviews and work with key suppliers and internal stakeholders to address performance issues.

• Plan and execute day-to-day direct procurement activities for our stakeholders, including:

• Prepare and coordinate Requests for Quotation (RFQs) based on functional and/or technical specifications provided by relevant stakeholders.

• Manage the RFQ process, including issuing RFQs, managing supplier communications, collecting quotations, coordinating technical evaluations with relevant stakeholders, and completing commercial evaluations.

• Manage the day-to-day administration of supplier contracts and agreements in accordance with agreed commercial terms and procurement procedures.

• Manage the placement and administration of purchase orders in accordance with agreed supplier framework agreements and technical and commercial requirements.

• Monitor and expedite orders to support the timely delivery of goods and services in accordance with agreed supplier terms and project requirements, escalating issues where necessary.

• Build effective cross-functional relationships with stakeholders to understand business requirements and support the implementation of Yokogawa GB procurement strategies.

• Work closely with the European Procurement team to support the implementation of European procurement strategies within Yokogawa GB

• Work in accordance with the company code of conduct and procurement policy

About your skills:

• CIPS qualified or working towards / willingness to undertake qualification
• Business Degree is desirable although not essential
• Proven technical/project procurement experience
• You will be conversant with the procurement to pay process, including supplier selection, tendering, negotiation and contracting, as well as supplier onboarding and supplier management principles
• Experienced with MS Office applications
• SAP experience preferred
• Stress-resistant with high attention to detail
• You have high integrity and ethics, with a passion for learning. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and negotiation skills coupled with good verbal and written communication skills

What we promise to offer: 

• Freedom to do your job as autonomy is important to us
• Exciting challenges within a mature organisation that demands a high degree of individual responsibility and promotes initiatives
• A fun working atmosphere with various opportunities to work with awesome colleagues all over the world
• Innovative and advanced high-technology products and services
• Career development opportunities within an international environment 
• Competitive salary and incentive package depending on experience. 
• Standard working hours are Monday to Thursday 8:30am to 5:00pm, Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm. Flexibility will be required to meet customer and business needs
• Superb benefits including company pension contribution up to 12.5% dependent upon criteria, private medical insurance and healthcare scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with increments based on length of service

This is a permanent position, with our offices based at Runcorn.  We provide a healthy work-life balance with a blend of working from home and the office. There may be a requirement to travel to customer sites in Europe, the UK, offshore and overseas as required.

At Yokogawa we believe that our employees are crucial to our success. To help you maximize your potential, we offer an environment that actively encourages personal development and continuous learning (through internal and external trainings such as the leadership academy and sales academy, internal mobility, etc.)

Important for us

For Yokogawa diversity and inclusion is not just a human resources initiative or social to-do. It is something that we strongly believe and promote. We aim to recruit talent who dare to bring change to our organization with a diverse mindset and refreshing new views.

Yokogawa wants a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive culture.  We recruit, develop, and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience, knowledge, thinking styles, perspective, cultural background, and socioeconomic status. We will not discriminate based on any categorisation of humankind. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong, contribute, succeed, and demonstrate their full potential.

We recruit great people for great opportunities

Please visit our website https://www.yokogawa.com/nl/about/careers/ to discover more about our employees’ stories and the various career possibilities we offer.

Not just a job, but a career

Yokogawa, award winner for ‘Best Asset Monitoring Technology’ and ‘Best Digital Twin Technology’ at the HP Awards, is a leading provider of industrial automation, test and measurement, information systems and industrial services in several industries. 

Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition, (bio)technology, artificial intelligence, industrial cybersecurity, etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.

About the Team
Our 18,000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission, to "co-innovate tomorrow". We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our planet. In return, we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.

Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive culture

Yokogawa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Yokogawa wants a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture.  We will actively recruit, develop, and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience, knowledge, thinking styles, perspective, cultural background, and socioeconomic status.  We will not discriminate based on race, skin color, age, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, belief, political opinion, nationality, ethnicity, place of origin, disability, family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong, contribute, succeed, and demonstrate their full potential.

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