Assistant Buyer

Autosmart are a British manufacturing success story and have been supplying our customers with our market leading vehicle cleaning products for 42 years. We have doubled in size in the last 10 years and are looking to grow by a further 50% in the next 5 years. We've purchased a second manufacturing site, have seen record sales and are implementing a new ERP system, there has never been a more exciting time to join us.

Our **Assistant Buyer** will join our Procurement and Supply team right at the heart of product manufacturing, where you will be responsible for assisting our category buyers in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills in supplier engagement, negotiation, monitoring and measuring supplier performance and working closely with our buyers to influence and challenge the status quo. You will have outstanding communication skills, enjoy collaborating cross functionally and will be highly organised and well planned to manage a demanding workload.

**As our Assistant Buyer you will be**:

- A confident and articulate communicator
- Self-motivated and able to work autonomously
- A proactive problem solver
- Driven and determined to achieve objectives
- Collaborative and supportive
- Analytical and enjoy working with data
- Flexible and ready to embrace change
**What we can offer you**:

- A competitive salary depending on experience
- A varied and interesting role with a financially stable market leader
- Collaborative team working; fast-paced and customer centric environment
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Non-contributory private health care and critical illness cover
- Generous contributory pension scheme
- Life insurance at three times salary
- Employee assistance programme
- Staff purchase scheme take home products for FREE