Assistant Buyer

5 months ago

Bradford, United Kingdom Barrett Steel Full time

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**All About the Role**

Based at our Bradford Head Office, we have an opening for an experienced Assistant Buyer; The purpose of this role is to be responsible for managing supplier relationships & proactively identifying opportunities to reduce costs/ maximise spend. You’ll negotiate with suppliers as well as leading resourcing initiatives. Part of the role will also be to manage the Good in Process ensure stock has a correct location and the warehouse staff have ample preparation for incoming deliveries. This important position contributes to the quality of customer service and the achievement of targets and sites performance. The Hours for this role are 9 am to 5pm Monday to Fridays.

**Specific tasks will include**:

- Negotiate best price for products & services to achieve the best margins, quality standards, delivery performance & material quality.
- Managing supplier relationships & proactively identifying opportunities to reduce costs/ maximise spend
- Keep track of incoming goods-in for the forward week - highlighting any potential issues such as delivery congestion or staff shortages.
- Ensure that enough space or an appropriate holding area is created for all incoming goods before the goods arrive.
- Allocating booking slots for road deliveries & booking on of all road and sea deliveries.
- Link the relevant test certificates to all steel batches.
- Any ad hoc duties to contribute to ensuring the department achieves all high standards of service

**We offer you**
- Highly competitive salary depending on experience
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure
- Access to health and wellbeing services
- Annual Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Barrett Steel pension

**All About You**

You will have the passion, drive, and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way.

**Essential Skills for the role**:

- An experienced buyer/assistant buyer, ideally with steel expertise.
- Proactive attitude & approach with a one team mindset.
- High level of accuracy with good computer skills.
- Builds strong relationships quickly & holds excellent communications skills.
- Organised & methodical in your approach.

**How it feels to work for us**

We provide a fantastic opportunity to work within a forward-thinking organisation that is respected as the UK’s leading steel stockholder. Our people are the driving force behind Barrett Steel, and we seek individuals who are passionate, hard-working, ambitious and demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude to help us build and develop the business. Barrett Steel encourages innovative thinking and has an open door for people to lead and influence change.

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