Assistant Buyer

Assistant Buyer

Westcoast Purchasing provide innovative solutions to a growing number of customers across the UK and Europe. Our Purchasing team is essential for the efficient planning and profiling with effective communication with key departments within Westcoast to ensure that we deliver the best possible customer outcome.

What is the role?

Working with a dedicated set of buyers and product managers, you will take an internal customer-focused approach to managing stock profiles from a set portfolio, ensuring maximum fulfilment at mínimal operational and financial costs. You will be an individual who takes an analytical and methodical approach, ideally with strong purchasing experience.

How will you do this?
- Accuracy and prevention of queries through consistent and accurate data processing. E.g. processing of purchase orders.
- Processing of Purchase requisitions from Hardware or Accessories Product Managers, producing Purchase orders for placement with relevant Suppliers.
- Some build specifications will need to be ratified against online build specs and current documents. In addition, some Microsoft orders will need to be hand keyed on to MS own website.
- To maintain expected delivery dates and prevent overdue delivery dates.
- To continually improve and develop working methods.
- Actively recommend new processes and procedures showing continuous improvement.

Is this the role for you?
To be successful in this role you will have some of the following skills and experience and the desire to develop in other areas:

- Excel skills.
- Proactive, commercially minded individual with excellent communication.
- Experience of working within a busy, pressurised internal purchasing environment.
- Able to communicate at all levels, articulate issues with clarity and affect change.
- Motivated and proactive, able to work under pressure both independently and as part of a team.
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to develop strong business relationships.
- Ability to cope under pressure and react to fast changing situations.
- Able to work within tight guidelines and conform to strict SLAs.
- Excellent attention to detail.

What will we do for you?
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding of the IT industry, build a career with a Sunday Times Top Track 100 business and develop strong, long standing industry relationships.
- We will help you grow To help you unlock your full potential and progress your career, we provide you with all the training and development opportunities you will need to succeed. We offer funded Apprenticeships, work-based studies, and professional qualifications.
- We have a generous benefits package including, 25 days holidays, employee referral bonus scheme, staff purchase discounts on IT products, electronics, mobiles, accessories, and mobile phone contracts.
- You’ll also have access to Westcoast Wellbeing - including full Employee Assistance services, access to mental health counselling, virtual GP, Physiotherapy and Perks and Rewards, enhanced family leave policies, life insurance and schemes including eye care and cycle to work.
- Our teams enjoy many social and charitable events throughout the year.

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

Pay: £30,000.00-£32,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Assistant Buyer