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Junior Buyer
2 months ago
Due to our continued growth and expansion we are looking for an experienced Junior Buyer, preferably with construction industry experience:
Overall Purpose of the Role:
Purchase goods, materials, and services to ensure that the company’s operational needs are met, considering price, quality, and delivery, and to ensure continuity of supply.
Key Responsibilities:
General and Task Management
- Purchase goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets
- Support the purchasing function and other relevant departments and communicate any supply problems which may impact on business operations
- Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities
- Monitor market trends, competitor strategies and market suppliers
- Provide analysis on costs, new and existing and review cost reduction activities
- Prepare reports and updates as and when required
- Work closely with others in the procurement function and review opportunities for continuous improvement and business improvements
- Adhere to any health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of self, staff, and visitors
- Negotiate contracts, improve prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
- Prepare and raise purchase orders and order schedules
- Build, maintain, and manage supplier relationships and keep up good communications
- Ensure that a professional and consistent approach is taken in relation to all supplier relationships
- Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures and OJEU guidance during supplier negotiations and contracts award progress
- Conduct research for new suppliers and components
- Compile date relating to supplier performance to enable evaluation
- Assess and evaluate suppliers and contribute to performance reviews to ensure contract compliance
- Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, and invoice issues
Self-Management
- Comply with health, safety, and environmental policies
- Assertive, resilient and welcomes change
- Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working together
- Proactively contributes to the team
- Actively committed to teams’ development
- Is self-aware and optimistic
- Shows moral courage, openness, and honesty in all dealings
Skills and Attributes:
- Able to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with staff, stakeholders, and suppliers
- Good communication, negotiation, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Analytical, numerically astute with strong demonstrated problem solving abilities
- Able to manage time effectively, prioritise tasks and achieve set targets
- Commercial and financial awareness with a full understanding of how failure impacts the production, manufacture, and customer order fulfilment
- Able to work well under pressure and handle emergency and stressful situations
- Keen attention to detail and accuracy
**Salary**: £24,000.00-£25,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
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