Junior Buyer

**Wildanet is a thriving and growing internet provider bringing superfast and super-reliable service to homes and businesses throughout the region. Our aim is to attract, develop and retain colleagues with a unique combination of local knowledge and technical expertise who put the customer at the heart of the business.**

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Wildanet, building careers from the Southwest to anywhere._**

**Job Title**: Junior Buyer

**Benefits**: Company Pension/ Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family/ Onsite Free Parking/ Eyecare Vouchers/ Flexible working/ Hybrid working available/ Bespoke Training & Development Plan/ Spontaneous Awards/ Enhanced Sick, Family leave and Statutory Leave/ Flu Jabs/ Employee Share Options/ Death in Service Benefit/ Paid leave for charity support/ Complimentary tea and coffee in the office/ Attractive holiday package/ Free Broadband (after probation has been passed).

**Location**: Liskeard Office and occasional travel

**Salary**: £27,000 - £29,500 DOE

**Role Purpose**: The purpose of this role is to support the Buyer with day-to-day procurement activities such as liaising with suppliers, raising purchase orders and dealing with order enquiries.

**Main Responsibilities**: The role holder will be responsible for raising purchase orders in a timely manner, building and developing successful working relations with external and internal stakeholders, resolving order discrepancies and supporting the wider procurement team with any other duties as required.

**Key Activities**:
While duties and responsibilities will vary, they typically include:

- Purchase goods, materials, and services in line with company’s policies
- Contact suppliers to resolve pricing, delivery timeline quality and invoice issues
- Support Supplier Performance Reviews with data and reports to enable evaluation
- Liaise with Suppliers with meetings when required
- Provide ongoing support for the development of the procurement policy for the company
- Negotiate and improve pricing and terms of business with suppliers continuously reviewing opportunities to make tangible savings
- Adhere to all Health and safety policies in the workplace
- Assist with other areas of procurement when required
- Attend regular face to face meetings with line manager to discuss progress and provide update on work activities
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on procurement issues
- Communicate in a consistently professional manner
- Secure the most favourable terms regarding cost, quality, guarantee of delivery
- Attend external meetings with suppliers, which may include occasional travel to trade shows
- Onboard Suppliers in line with process
- Assist with sourcing of new suppliers
- Manage and create purchase orders on MS Dynamics ERP

**Essential Person Specification**

**Knowledge**:

- Basic knowledge of a procurement system such as MS Dynamics, Sage or similar
- Working knowledge of MS Office package
- Knowledge of telecoms products (Desirable)

**Skills/Attributes**:

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Analytical skills
- Working to deadlines
- Organisational skills
- Flexibility
- Able to prioritise
- Able to take initiative and a self-starterAble to follow instructions and processes
- Able to work as part of a team
- Professional manner
- Ability to adapt language to suit different audiences when needed
- Problem solving skills
- Working under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Negotiation Skills (Desirable)
- Relationship Management (Desirable)

**Experience**:

- Relevant work experience in a procurement or admin role for 1+ years
- Experience of working within a fast-paced role with deadlines to meet
- Supply Chain management experience (Desirable)

**Qualifications**:

- Maths and English qualifications equivalent to a GCSE ‘grade C/Level 4’ or above
- Working towards CIPS or interested in completing CIPS

**Circumstances**:

- Standard working hours will be Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm
- Hybrid working role
- Must be able to conduct themselves in a professional manner