Buyer

Buyer

Location: Bolton

Salary: £25,000 - £28,000

Our client, an established Buying Group, is now seeking an experienced Buyer to join their team. This is a great opportunity to be part of a highly regarded business that pride themselves on career progression and employee satisfaction!

As part of the Purchasing team, you will be working within a team responsible for a number of categories including cleaning products, PPE, etc on behalf of UK wide customers. This role will suit candidates who thrive in a busy environment and enjoy working within a team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain appropriate relationships with approved and potential suppliers to ensure competitive pricing, payment terms and quality products for the group.
• Identify procurement needs and develop targets and strategy for ongoing cost improvements and efficiencies without sacrificing quality - specifically benchmarking, negotiating prices, service delivery and ensuring added value.
• Hold frequent supplier performance and compliance reviews and ensure that Supplier KPI’s are measured and achieved in line with key business objectives.
• Visit suppliers, as and when required, to carry out suitability appraisals and reviews.
• Maintain Procurement best practice techniques on contract tendering (including RFI, RFQ, RFP), especially on Jangro own brand items.
• Negotiate retrospective discounts from all suppliers and monitor target achievement progress when appropriate.
• Ensure price increases and product changes only occur in line with company policy and all information is passed to the membership.
• Ensure timely receipt and analysis of supplier sales and product volumes by member to monitor trends and take appropriate action.
• Source new products and suppliers from both inside and outside the UK as required.
• Maintain and monitor quality control master samples of branded products to ensure continuity of production and consistent supply

The successful candidate will need to have previous experience working as a Buyer with strong market knowledge and practical knowledge of procurement processes, policies and procedures. You will possess excellent negotiating skills as well as solid communication and articulation skills and attention to detail is key.

For Further information please contact one of our specialist consultants quoting REF: NJR8541