Junior Buyer

**Junior Buyer - Chesterfield - £22,000 + Bonus - Hybrid Working**

Chase & Holland are proud to be working with an International market leading business based in Chesterfield who are recruiting a Junior Buyer to join their team.

Working within an established and highly skilled procurement team, this role will provide you with fantastic training and development and the chance to establish a career in purchasing.

This role will suit someone who is a recent graduate who is hungry, ambitious and wanting to grow and develop with a global fast paced business.

**In Return You’ll Receive**:

- 20 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Amazing opportunities for progression with CIPS study support
- Lucrative performance and company profit related bonus schemes
- Flexible Hybrid Working (Work from home 3 days per week)
- Pension scheme
- Free onsite parking

**Junior Buyer Responsibilities**:

- Management of inbound PO’s to plan, determined by the Planning and Procurement teams
- Purchase Order book management, expediting and de-expediting as required
- PO Exception management
- Management of PO Amendment and Cancellation Requests, from Sales or Inventory management
- Vendor performance management, including scorecards and sharing results / agreeing actions
- Planning of receipts, working with Operations, to optimise material flow into our warehouses
- Handling Freight issues with specialist suppliers and purchase orders
- Liaison across teams and departments, within and outside Inventory Management
- Non-placement of P.O. analysis, reporting back through Procurement and Planning for action
- Drive automation and simplification within our processes in line with the company philosophy through CI and co-operative work stream planning

**Hours of work** - 8am - 5pm (Monday to Thursday) 8:30am - 4pm (Friday) 1-hour lunch

**Key Requirements & Preferences**:

- Confident communicator with the ability to build strong relationships
- Strong academic grades in English, Maths and Science
- Have strong Microsoft Office skills and data manipulation skills using Excel
- Good team player

Chase & Holland acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. We specialise in Finance, Supply Chain, HR and IT recruitment and comfortably service Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire marketplace