Assistant Buyer

Gaming:
Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. Light & Wonder’s gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

As an Assistant Buyer at Light & Wonder, you will support the Purchasing team and will contribute to the success of the organisation by delivering effective Procurement and Supply Chain support.

As our Assistant Buyer you will be driving efficiencies, enhancing performance, maximizing value for money and supporting the end to end processes in place to ensure our customers get their goods on time and in full.

Key Responsibilities
- Working in collaboration with Operations team members, ensure appropriate solutions are identified, developed and implemented maintaining consistency, standardisation and reducing complexity where possible.
- Particular focus on identifying key areas to drive efficiencies in workload and processes.
- Commodity tracking and reporting to support price increase/ decrease negotiations.
- Supporting the Purchasing team members in their administration duties, meeting attendance and assisting with reporting/ data presentation
- Support our best-practice procurement processes, to create a more efficient strategic plan and maximise value/performance.
- Assist in building effective supply chain relationships in order to leverage spend, reduce cost, mitigate commercial and legal risk and add value.
- Supplier performance tracking.
- Monitor and track transportation shipments from factory collection to warehouse door.
- Other duties not limited to the above.

**Qualifications**:

- Previous Procurement and/ or Supply Chain experience desirable.
- CIPS or willing to work towards desirable.
- Data analysis and presentations.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills particularly data and presentations.
- Excellent personal credibility with effective persuasion and influencing skills.
- Strong organisation and priority planning skills are essential.

What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary and performance bonus
- Hybrid working
- 5% employer pension contributions
- 33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays)
- Paid leave to work on charitable projects
- Access to Reward Hub, a reward platform offering shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Training, support and career development
- Cycle to work scheme

You will be based from our Warehouse facilities in Oldham, OL9 9XB as well as benefit from our hybrid working model.