Assistant Buyer

7 days ago


Yorkshire and Humberside, United Kingdom Wates Full time

We have an opportunity for an Assistant Buyer to join our SES Procurement team in Leeds, to support the procurement objectives with prompt placement of orders in line with budgets and programme, working alongside a team of buyers.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop a career and become a Procurement Professional, working with and supported by the knowledge and expertise of an established team. You will develop and learn a vast range of skills in a growing business; supplier management, negotiation, customer service, relationship building, project management skills, commercial awareness.

Procurement experience not essential. Proactive, can do attitude required.

As part of the Wates Group, SES (Engineering Services) Ltd is a £180 Million M&E Business operating out of 4 Regional Offices as the UK’s pre-eminent design-led Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) provider, specialising in the design and installation of building services and infrastructure solutions. Having successfully worked on several prestigious contracts in the UK and Scotland, we are viewed as the pre-eminent supplier of building services and are BIM 2 level accredited

SES deliver bespoke, design-led cost-efficient solutions optimised for the whole construction team, by maximising off-site manufacture in our production facility SES PRISM delivering our solutions which minimise onsite resources and interfaces assuring quality and customer satisfaction in a measurable, safe way every time.

**Key Accountabilities will include**:
Processing overhead orders and placement of project consumable orders, managing acknowledgements and invoice variations

Supplier engagement and visits, developing product knowledge and identifying opportunities for commercial betterment on material spend

Material database maintenance, managing price files updates adding/removing items, manually updating monthly price files for copper cable and channel

Setting up new contract information including contract defaults and delivery information, auto order and set up and management of the daily order reports

Supporting the procurement team and operational leader with creating reports, taking meeting notes and creating and issuing minutes, updating trackers and other tasks as required

Manage site returns and credit log

You will be an effective in organising your time, and plan/prioritise workload to meet deadlines, whilst being a team player and collaborating with others. You will bring a can-do approach and a solid analytical ability.


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