Buyer
2 days ago
**Buyer**
**Welwyn Garden City**
**Perm, Full Time**
**Up to £32,000 per annum, D.O.E**
**Benefits**:
- 20 Days holiday (rising to 25 after six months' service) plus bank holidays
- Opportunities to progress within the company dependent on skill and business requirement
- Company pension scheme (applicable after probationary period)
- Life insurance scheme
- Free on-site parking
**Key Accountabilities**:
Account managing and ownership of allocated suppliers, focusing on sales, cost, quality and delivery performance.
- Driving continuous improvement, increasing turnover and alleviating supply risk, on quality, cost reduction, and lead times, by monitoring supplier performance, through evaluation and analysis.
- Negotiating prices, shipping costs and creating supplier contracts, by building a rapport with suppliers through regular meetings.
- Completing accountability for monitoring and maintaining adequate stock levels, forecasting stock, ordering stock and raising purchase orders.
- Ensuring cost and selling prices are aligned, focusing on margins.
- Promoting the introduction of new products, opportunities and trends, through the continued awareness of the market, new products and competitors.
- **Continual maintenance of data for stock items, including prices, minimum order quantities, descriptions, product data sheets, product information sheets, packaging data and general product information.**:
- Notifying customers of price increases using excel calculations to determine percentage increases, sales margin loss and system uploads.
**Experience & Skillset required**:
- Experience within the purchasing/procurement/logistics/import & export function
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to assess and interpret different types of data
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with accuracy and attention to detail
- Knowledge, or ability to acquire rapidly, company systems, product and market knowledge
- Excellent IT skills covering Excel, Word, Outlook and CRM systems
- Ability to prioritise and adapt to changing workloads
- **Sound numeracy skills**
**Your attributes**:
- Educated to C level or higher in English Language and Mathematics
- A willingness to increase product knowledge through training and education
- Highly self-motivated and driven to achieve targets
- The ability to take full responsibility of assigned tasks and projects
- Passionate in achieving results
- Impassioned about our business and what we represent
- A focused and structured approach to workload
Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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