Buyer

1 week ago

Kirkby in Ashfield, United Kingdom Purchasing Full time

Van Elle are looking for a Buyer to join our busy Procurement Department. This is a great opportunity for someone seeking a permanent full-time position in an exciting and fast paced company. If you are looking for an exciting and challenging opportunity, you’ll have what it takes to work at Van-Elle.
Reporting to the Procurement Manager, your duties will include purchasing goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets. You will support the purchasing function and other relevant departments and communicate any supply problems which may impact on business operations
To succeed in the role, you should have previous experience of working in a purchasing team preferably within a manufacturing or construction environment.
**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets.
- Support the purchasing function and other relevant departments and communicate any supply problems which may impact on business operations.
- Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities.
- Monitor and advise on any issues which present risk or opportunity to the organisation.
- Monitor market trends, competitor strategies and market suppliers.
- Provide analysis on costs, new and existing and review cost reduction activities.
- Prepare reports and updates as and when required.
- Work closely with others in the procurement function and review opportunities for continuous improvement and business improvements.
- Negotiate contracts, improve prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
- Prepare and raise purchase orders and order schedules.
- Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and keep up good communications.
- Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures and OJEU guidance during supplier negotiations and contracts award process.
- Conduct research for new components and suppliers.
- Compile data relating to supplier performance to enable evaluation.
- Assess and evaluate suppliers and contribute to performance reviews to ensure contract compliance.
- Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery or invoice issues.

**Essential skills**:

- Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) or similar qualification or studying towards CIPS qualification would be beneficial.
- Previous experience of working in a purchasing team preferably within a manufacturing or construction environment.
- Good knowledge of purchasing, negotiation, commercial understanding and cost breakdown.
- Experience of working closely with suppliers.
- Able to add value, reduce costs and input to business improvements
- Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working together.
- Proactively contributes to the team to identify and deliver business improvement activities.
- Demonstrates integrity, openness and honesty in all dealings.
- Good communicator, with strong negotiation, interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Analytical, numerically astute with strong demonstrated problem-solving abilities.
- Able to manage time effectively, prioritise tasks and achieve set targets.
- Able to work well under pressure and handle emergency and stressful situations.
- Keen attention to detail and accuracy.

**What you’ll get in return**
- Competitive salary depending on experience.
- Hours of work are 37.5 per week Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday.
- 25 days holiday plus bank/public holidays.
- Benefits include company bonus scheme.
- Access to Company pension and healthcare cashback plan.
- Onsite training centre offers ongoing training and development opportunities.
- Access to our 24-hour confidential employee support line.

**About Us**
Over the past 38 years, Van Elle has grown to become the UK’s largest independent ground engineering contractor, successfully completing over 20,000 projects across the UK. Van Elle’s unrivalled range of engineering techniques and design services enables our expert engineering teams to develop technically excellent and cost-effective solutions across a wide number of sectors, from housing, construction to rail.
Employing over 600 people, with a turnover of over £90 million, we have plans to grow and build on our reputation for delivering high quality foundation and ground engineering solutions. Van Elle values diversity and celebrates individual differences, believing that our inclusive family centric culture helps our business continue to grow as a dynamic and innovative organisation.
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