Lead Buyer

3 weeks ago


Croydon, United Kingdom Optima Recruitment Full time

Our client is looking for an experienced Lead Buyer to play a crucial role in managing and improving the various tactical day to day duties as well as helping on critical projects and implementing new ideas.

The successful Buyer will need to be a creative problem solver who will find a way to get goods to the customers come what may and have excellent interpersonal & communication skills with a customer orientated attitude.
- Managing the full P2P process (Raising orders, acknowledgement, queries resolution, etc)
- Point of escalation for chasing and expediting orders with suppliers
- Obtaining and processing purchase requests
- Requesting purchase proposals and assessing quotes
- Assessing orders for quality
- Ensuring the optimum maintenance of data in the ERP (price, dates, quantities, etc)
- Identifying and raising technical queries with the ERP developer
- Liaise daily with Operations, Project and Warehouse (quality, queries, reporting, etc)
- Looking after the high-value projects and fast-track orders from inception to completion, along with the Operations and Projects Teams

**Person Specification**:

- Experience in a product-based business as opposed to a service-based business
- B2B business as opposed to B2C
- Experience of purchasing in a high volume / high pressure / deadline driven role
- Previously worked with an ERP or MRP system
- Outstanding attention to detail and time management skills
- Corporate as well as small business experience

**Additional Information**:

- Based in Croydon (Moving to Crawley summer 2023)
- £42,000 - £46,000
- Monday - Friday, 7.30am - 4.30pm / 8am - 5pm
- Onsite parking
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 20 days holiday plus bank holidays. Company closes for a week over Christmas.

Refer a friend and earn £100 If you have a friend who is also searching for a new opportunity in the local area, recommend Optima and if we place them (providing they complete their 3-month probation period), you will receive a £100 retail voucher of yourchoice

Please note that if you have not been contacted within 5 working days, then unfortunately on this occasion your CV has not been shortlisted.

Optima Recruitment Limited are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy and are an equal opportunities employer.


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