Assistant Buyer

5 months ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Macfarlane Group Full time

**Location: Nottingham (Greenwoods Stock Boxes)**
**Package: Basic Salary £24,000-£27,000 (dependent on experience) plus benefits**

**Hours: 40 per week Monday-Friday**
**Sector: Packaging Distribution**

**The Company**
We, the UK’s largest packaging distributor have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Buyer to join our team in Nottingham. We are a committed equal opportunities employer that champions ‘dignity in the workplace.’ Our focus is to provide customers with fully integrated and innovative packaging solutions, augmented by outstanding customer service. Appointing and nurturing sales talent across our business is key to our continued growth.

**The Assistant Buyer Role**
Working as a member of our local procurement team, the Assistant Buyer role will support the site at which you are based whilst upholding the company wide National procurement strategy. Your appointment to this position will be integral to the overall success of our business, as you will be instrumental in helping to coordinate the management and development of the regional supplier base.

**Assistant Buyer Key Duties**
- Managing a large portfolio of suppliers
- Sourcing and negotiating with existing suppliers, challenging prices where relevant
- Ensuring supplies adhere to quality, service, and best practice initiatives
- Managing performance of the supplier base
- Assisting with tendering activity, product enquiries and ad-hoc project work
- Purchasing of standard and non-standard stock items
- Carrying out supplier benchmarking activities
- Reporting and statistical analysis
- Upholding procurement strategy
- Maximizing profitability and minimizing risk to the Business
- Undertaking stock control and administration activities

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**Our Benefits**
From the commencement of your employment, your paid holiday entitlement will be at the rate of 23 days per calendar year, plus bank holidays, this increases with service. We also offer a competitive basic starting salary. Macfarlane Group is also dedicated to maximizing every employee’s potential, by providing career development plans and pathways in an environment that fosters personal growth and continuous improvement.

**Your future with us**
Here at Macfarlane Group, you truly have the potential to shape your own future and set your own ambitions. We are a large group company where internal promotion and mobility are a key feature of our success. Through tailored career plans, we provide a wide range of structure training & development pathways, utilizing both in-house expertise to share knowledge and the best-in-class external training partners. There is potential access to management & leadership development, and we work closely with recognized, accredited bodies including the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) & the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS); so there really are no limits to where your journey within Macfarlane Group may take you long term.

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