Graduate Buyer

TEXO Recruitment have a new opportunity for a Graduate Buyer to join our external client on a full-time, permanent basis in Aberdeen
- Supporting the Supply Chain, the Graduate Buyer procures all project related requirements in a sound, ethical manner and in accordance with requirements to assure on time delivery to the end customer.
- Will work to a budget set by Proposals and will look to negotiate all request for quotes to ensure we procure better than budget but not to the detriment of quality
- Purchases items consistent with price, desired quality, and requirement date
- Expedites orders to meet on time delivery from suppliers

Daily duties of the job holder:

- Selects suitable sources, requests bids as necessary, evaluates quotation and makes final supplier selection.
- Verifies that Bill of Materials details are correct and complete and highlight to your immediate supervisor, any discrepancies.
- Negotiates pricing, lead times and terms, conditions and recommends best commercial options ensuring budgets are met.
- Capture and report to immediate supervisor any anomalies with BOM, budget vs actual costs, lead-times etc.
- Performs order expediting activities as required
- Liaises with Projects personnel highlighting any issues with achieving requested deliveries
- Establish and build good working relationships with suppliers
- Adhere to the Approved Vender supplier procedure with regards to setting up suppliers on our approved vender listing (AVL)
- Collate and prepare pre-tender documents to be issued to suppliers for specific tenders
- Review and report Scorecards for allocated suppliers.
- To be trained on a variety of supply chain group activities to able to provide absence cover.
- Experience within working in a purchasing department on all tendering and purchasing processes.
- Proficient at dealing with setting up suppliers on an Approved Vender Listing
- A good Graduate knowledge and experience of buying materials and services.

Additional:

- Demonstrate an ability to effectively utilise resources, and the ability to plan, control, and take responsibility for own work
- A good knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel packages
- Strong communication skills
- General office administration experience
- Keyboard and computer systems skills.
- Computer literacy

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: 1922