Operational Buyer
Key Skills
Job Description
- Operational Purchasing: create, send, and follow-up purchase orders, responsible for material availability, create and send out forecasts, judge commitments (e.g. high stock volume) upfront, foresee future material issues, solve or escalate.
- Administration: continuously maintain purchase orders in ERP system.
- Collaboration: solid collaboration with suppliers, colleagues, (internal) customers, and provide feedback on the stability of the production plan
- Optimization: advise on purchase parameter setting to improve, advise on suppliers (framework) agreement.
- Hands-on mentality
- Good communications skills and team player
- Bachelor working and thinking level
- Preferably some experience in an Operational Buyer or Planning role.
- Basic English skills (speaking and writing)
We provide market-leading, material characterization technologies for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories in the analytics of advanced materials.
We support our customers through their biggest challenges, from developing lifesaving vaccines to sustainable fuels. We wake up every day to delight our customers through innovation, high-quality solutions and workflows, and excellence in customer satisfaction.
We are a recognized leader for quality and insights in material characterization; winning customers with performance and keeping them with service. With more than 2,000 employees operating in over 20 countries across the world, and R&D sites in North America, Europe and Asia.
We are part of Spectris, a company which combines precision with purpose to equip customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive. In 2025, Spectris acquired Micromeritics as part of Malvern Panalytical.
Core Responsibilities
The Operational Buyer manages supplier relationships and procurement activities to ensure the timely availability of goods and services. They are responsible for creating purchase orders, maintaining ERP data, and optimizing supply chain parameters to meet quality and cost objectives.
Requirements
Candidates should possess a bachelor's level of working and thinking, along with a hands-on mentality and strong communication skills. Previous experience in an operational buyer or planning role is preferred, and basic English proficiency is required.
About Malvern Panalytical
Industry: Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Malvern Panalytical provides market-leading material characterization technologies for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories to optimize and accelerate the development of advanced materials. We support our customers through their biggest challenges by uncovering critical insights into material properties. From developing life-saving vaccines and next-generation therapeutics to advancing clean energy solutions and sustainable industrial processes, we give scientists the confidence to make important decisions that shape the world we live in. We wake up every day to delight our customers and help them solve the problems that matter. Through innovation, high-quality solutions and workflows, and excellence in customer satisfaction, we help reduce lead times, increase repeatability, and deliver data that is actionable and easily understood. Our vision is to continue to be a trusted and recognized leader for quality and insights in material characterization, helping our customers navigate complex scientific topics with accuracy and ease. We win customers with performance and keep them with service and insights. We are the ‘Best together.’ Our people are experts in their fields, delivering value and innovation for each other and for our customers. With diversity in experience and customer-centric thinking, we are the best choice for researchers and scientists seeking competitive advantage in the market. We have a high-performance culture - empowering teams, quick decision-making and serving customers more effectively - grounded in agility, clarity, and transparency, with speed and focus critical to our success, all shaped by our values: Own it. Aim High. Be True. We are committed to helping to solve our customers’ greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive for the future.