Assistant Buyer
1 week ago
Role: Assistant Buyer/Junior Buyer
Location: Manchester
Industry: Manufacturing, Engineering
Employment: Permanent
**Salary**: £25,000 - £27,000 per annum.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Purchasing Assistant or Junior Buyer seeking an opportunity to develop into an accomplished Buyer.
In this role you will be working within an established Procurement team that will guide you in your development, whilst still allowing you the exposure to a varied workload in procurement.
You will need to be able to demonstrate previous work in a manufacturing environment, with strong administration skills.
Duties
- Develops and maintains supplier relationships on an on-going basis
- Track purchase order status by reviewing daily activity reports
- Ensures that a PO is created correctly
- Expedites delivery of items by contacting vendors and shippers
- Negotiate price, quality, delivery, and terms with suppliers.
- Select suppliers and places purchase orders.
- Analyse and evaluate bids to determine optimum procurement value.
- Assist in the setting up of supplier agreements.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities
- Supports category manager of an assigned category spend.
- Communicate and manage expectations within the internal procurement team
- Occasional travel to UK suppliers
Background
- Strong Administration background
- Ability to use ERP & Purchasing Systems
- Working knowledge of a manufacturing environment (Preferable not essential)
- Interest and tenacity to deal with negotiations.Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Thank you for your interest in this vacancy. Omega Resource Group is a technical and engineering specialist agency and we also recruit for Procurement Specialist, Buyers, Purchasing Assistant, Buyers, Supply Chain assistants, Procurement assistant, supplychain administrator, procurement administrators, Junior buyers, Trainee Buyers and Graduate Buyers.
Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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