Buyer

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom CDW Full time

**Description**

Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.

**About CDW**

CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers around the Globe. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs over 15,000 coworkers, with headquarters across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

CDW prides itself on “making amazing happen”. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and are grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together.

**Job Summary**

As a Buyer, you will be responsible for the procurement of products and services, ensuring the service level to our customers is maximized through a combination of efficient purchasing, at the best possible price.

**Key responsibilities**
- To ensure the service level to our customers is maximized through a combination of efficient purchasing, at the best possible price.
- Develop supplier relationships for a given product set: ensure suppliers always provide information related to deals and promotions and use this information to negotiate better deals. This relationship can be supported by regular meetings where necessary
- To negotiate at any opportunity, to maximise margins, ensuring best price
- Liaise with sales teams to communicate any issues arising with their orders
- Clear and concise interaction with all company departments; notably the sales department, distribution centre, inventory and accounts payable.
- Ensure purchase orders are loaded correctly to enable seamless payment of invoices
- Understand the purchasing processes for a variety of product types and manufacturers as required.
- Consistently review work practices in search of efficiency improvements.
- Identify issues as part of the day to day workflows and use skills and experience to resolve supplier issues. First point of escalation.
- Raise POs as required within the defined Purchasing SLA with a limited degree of supervision
- Ensure all changes to purchase orders are recorded on the system
- Liaise with warehouse to ensure any issues can be resolved in a timely fashion
- Provide cover for other members of the department as necessary and perform other tasks if requested from time to time by the Category Manager
- Support less experienced members of the team in the education of best practices and purchasing processes.
- Understand how Purchasing function supports other departments and overall business objectives.

**Qualifications, Skills & Experience**
- Experience of working in a procurement role, ideally within IT (Understanding of core CDW vendors, beneficial)
- Experienced in dealing with suppliers and contractors, and negotiations to ensure best cost and quality
- Excellent numeracy skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure
- Highly motivated with ability to work under own initiative, making decisions to benefit the business
- Demonstrated attention to detail, time management and organizational skill
- Microsoft Office skills, preferably including: Excel and Word but not essential

**Essential Attributes**
- Experience of working in a procurement role, ideally within IT (Understanding of core CDW vendors, beneficial)
- Experienced in dealing with suppliers and contractors, and negotiations to ensure best cost and quality
- Excellent numeracy skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure
- Highly motivated with ability to work under own initiative, making decisions to benefit the business
- Demonstrated attention to detail, time management and organizational skill
- Microsoft Office skills, preferably including: Excel and Word but not essential

**More about CDW and your career with us**:

- At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes whom you will learn and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self — and your best ideas — to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving — and better solutions for our customers in a rapidly evolving technology landscape._
- CDW is an equal opportunity employer committed to maintaining a policy of non-discrimination towards all coworkers and applicants for employment in all aspects of employment. CDW does not discriminate against any applicant because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status

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