Purchasing Specialist

1 week ago


Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom ABL Recruitment Full time

Job Title: Buyer

Job Description:

This is a senior-level technical customer care and purchasing role for a specialist business that acts as a purchasing hub for heavy industry and manufacturing clients across the world. The company employs about 100 staff globally, with the Head office in Colchester.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the UK and international Buying Purchasing Team
  • Research new international engineering spare parts suppliers
  • Sourcing products from the USA, Europe, and the Far East
  • Getting comparing prices and service levels of suppliers
  • Negotiate a price with the supplier
  • Negotiating delivery time-scale with supplier
  • Buying the part

Customer Liaison:

  • Agree terms of business and price and delivery schedule with customer
  • Producing detailed quotations for customers
  • Adding in a "finders fee" to the quotation
  • Double checking that the spare part meets the customer requirement

Delivery and Spare Parts Logistics:

  • Liaise with the warehouse to arrange all the logistics around delivery
  • Post-sales buyer administration
  • Provide an outstanding level of personal customer care at all times

Requirements:

  • Fluent English (other languages are always helpful)
  • Car driver essential
  • Purchasing or buying experience or post-sales administrative experience gained in a technical (or engineering) environment
  • Based locally

Company Information:

This is a lovely role. The company is a specialist business and acts as a purchasing hub for heavy industry and manufacturing clients across the world who are looking for specific components.


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