Junior Buyer
6 months ago
**Operations & Finance Assistant**
**Amazing Opportunity**
Materials Market is the UK’s first and fastest growing marketplace for building materials. As an early stage start-up that launched in November 2020, we have grown at an astonishing rate and have achieved serious traction in a very short space of time. We are pioneering a new approach to the sale of building materials; using cutting-edge ecommerce and marketplace technology to connect buyers and sellers in a transparent and competitive online space.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a fast-paced, innovative start-up that is right at the beginning of an exciting journey. We are looking for hard working, ambitious people to join us as we continue to disrupt a huge market with ground breaking results.
**Overview**
We are looking for a Junior Buyer reporting to the Purchasing Manager. You will assist the Purchasing Manager in handling the day-to-day purchasing needs of the business and work closely with the Operations Manager to oversee other daily admin tasks. Ideally looking for someone who has experience in working with Xero, Stripe and has worked in procurement.
**You will**
- Raise purchase orders and commission invoices for manual orders
- Upload daily supplier invoices on to the Materials Market platform and follow up with general invoice discrepancies with procurement dept.
- Process returns and cancellations on Materials Market platform and liaise with customers when necessary
**Requirements**:
- Experience using Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office packages
- Experience of using Xero - minimum 1 year
- Experience of general invoicing practices, VAT etc
- Experiences working within a construction company preferred - not essential
- Ability to work as a part of a team
- Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong business acumen
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
**Job Type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £25,000 - £26,500
**Schedule**:8am-5pm M-F
**Our recruitment process**:
- Stage 1 - Application_
- Stage 2 - Interviews_
- The second interview will last around 1 hour, and will be a more in-depth talk including our Purchasing manager and a member of the Senior Management Team.
- Stage 3 - Decision_
- The recruitment process as well as the decision is a two-way street. It’s about you wanting to work for us and our team deciding they want to work with you. If we would like to move forward, we will issue an offer letter and schedule a call to discuss further.
- *Materials Market pledges to be a harassment-free and discrimination-free company, committed to equal opportunity. We believe people from different backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product, and our company, better._
**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 40 per week
**Salary**: £25,000.00-£26,500.00 per year
**Benefits**:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Application question(s):
An insulation board has dimensions of 2400mm x 1200mm. How many m2 does the board cover?
- A customer has complained to you over the phone that their order should have been delivered yesterday, but it never arrived. They are very irate. How would you respond to the customer and what would you say?
- Someone is insulating a shed with where the area of the floor is 35.4m2. How many boards (rounded up to the nearest board) of 2400mm x 1200mm do they need to insulate their floor?
- An insulation slab is 1,200mm x 455mm in dimensions. There are 6 slabs per pack. How many m2 does a pack cover?
- A customer is insulating a wall where the dimensions are 3.9m x 10.6m. How many rolls of insulation do they need if the dimensions of the roll are 6,000mm x 1,140mm?
- If a length of timber is 3600mm long, how long is it in metres?
Work Location: In person
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