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Role: Buyer

Location: Belfast, NI, UK

Excellent Pay and Benefits! 

Qualitrol employees enjoy Competitive Salaries, great Healthcare benefits, Pension Plan with company contributions, generous Holiday/Sickness plans, Life Insurance and more. We are a family friendly workplace and provide enhanced Paternity pay, Adoption leave, Parental leave, Flexible Working Hours, and some remote, work from home opportunities. 

You will love working with colleagues who have a genuine desire to innovate and seek out complicated problems. We believe in absolute inclusion and diversity. Qualitrol associates enjoy the autonomy, breadth of responsibility, and creativity that are typical in a medium-sized company, while sharing resources, standard methodologies, and growth opportunities that are found in a Fortune 500 company like Fortive.

Your Impact

A buyer has a crucial role in the organization and is responsible for managing procurement activities and supplier relationships. Ensures that all goods, supplies, and inventory needed for the business to operate are ordered and kept in stock, as well as controls inventory levels, quality and costs associated with purchasing these items.

Here’s where you’ll demonstrate your proficiencies: 

  • Vendor management (On-time delivery, Spend, Quotes, Quality, Projects, and supply chain issues)
  • Supply Chain management (risk management, managing issues in the market, lead time, obsolescence, and order quantity management)
  • New Product Implementation (purchasing tasks and supply chain management)
  • Inventory and Cost management (making sure we are not paying too much, managing overstock and obsolete products, and creating projects to drive savings in the business)
  • Leading sustainability initiatives within the procurement process, including sourcing eco-friendly materials and evaluating suppliers’ environmental impact.
  • Participate in negotiating Logistics management and contracts with suppliers to secure advantageous terms, including pricing, delivery schedules, and quality specifications.
  • Participate in the supplier selection process, including conducting due diligence, evaluating bids, and making quality, price and capability recommendations.

Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience: 

  • Knowledge of working in a manufacturing environment
  • Electronics and metalwork sourcing knowledge
  • Manufacturing quality
  • Low-cost region sourcing knowledge.
  • Working knowledge of ERP systems (Oracle preferable)
  • Vendor and contract management
  • Comprehensive understanding of MS Office packages
  • Knowledge of problem-solving and continuous improvements
  • CIPS qualification advantageous but not essential

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. 

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. 

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. 

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. 

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth. 

Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at careers.fortive.com.

QUALITROL manufactures monitoring and protection devices for high value electrical assets and OEM manufacturing companies. Established in 1945, QUALITROL produces thousands of different types of products on demand and customized to meet our individual customers’ needs. We are the largest and most trusted global leader for partial discharge monitoring, asset protection equipment and information products across power generation, transmission, and distribution. At Qualitrol, we are redefining condition-based monitoring.

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