Buyer

**Job details: Buyer**

**Job type**

Full-time

Permanent

**Full Job Description**

Job Description: Buyer

Location: Subway Street, Hull, HU3 4EL

Hours: 40 hours per week - Monday to Friday
Paid overtime may be required to meet demands

**Salary: Negotiable - dependent on experience**

**Why Youngs Foods? **Youngs Foods Limited is one of the leading names in the Food Service wholesale industry within the Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire area and continues to see growth each year. We have recently taken over another Food Service company which has brought us further growth and exciting new opportunities ahead. We are looking to expand our team with ambitious individuals who are excited to join us on this journey. There is plenty of opportunity to progress within the company, job fulfilment, adding value to the team and job security. Youngs Foods is an ambitious, family run business and is invested in its people, every employee is valued.

**Job Overview**

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**

Working with the Head of Purchasing Warehouse staff in the following areas:

- Using statistical data to establish product requirements to meet customer demand whilst considering seasonal trends in the market.
- Creating purchase orders and raising orders with suppliers.
- Carry out goods inwards procedure ensuring a match / checking to purchase order and booking in of goods promptly.
- Reporting any stock shortages or damages to suppliers, raising return requests for credit notes.
- Awareness of stock storage methods, solutions and regulations.
- Assist in maintaining ERP stock listing to ensure it is kept as accurate as possible.
- Monitor slow moving stock lines to highlight to Head of Purchasing.
- Involvement with regular physical stock counts and stock takes within the ERP system.
- Assisting the Head of purchasing with requested reporting.
- Highlight any areas for improvement in the ERP system within the stock module.
- Identify areas for cost reduction regards all stock use.

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- Well organised and a logical thinker.
- Excellent team worker.
- Versatility to help other departments during busy periods when required.
- Drive, resilience and determination to get things done, make things happen and continually looking for better ways of doing things.
- Be able to follow procedure.
- Experience of procurement required, desirable if within the Food Service sector but not essential.
- Experience of goods inwards procedures.
- Good communication skills; verbal, phone & digital.
- Able to see tasks through and ability to work unsupervised.
- Working knowledge of standard computer packages essential, experience of Sage 200, Sharp-ax or similar stock control/purchase order modules desirable.
- You must be computer literate and have an understanding of Microsoft Word and Excel.

**Qualifications**
- A*-C Grade GCSE or equivalent in Mathematics, English and Science.
- Good methods of communication.

**Specific KPI’s and Deliverables**
- All Goods in related problems dealt with and reported in a timely manner on the day received.
- All Goods ordered in a timely manner maintaining agreed stocked volumes and mínimal stock shortages.
- Other KPI’s to be discussed during annual targets and performance reviews.

**Development**
- The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £25,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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