Buyer

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Juice Recruitment Ltd
Full job description

Juice Cheltenham is delighted to be supporting a fantastic client in their search for a Buyer on a temporary basis for approx. 6 months, based in Cheltenham.

You will be responsible for purchasing items or services under optimum conditions of quality, price and time, for which the need has been expressed by the contracting customers, whilst undertaking all purchasing responsibilities to support the P2P (Purchase to Pay) process.

Day to Day

• Work collaboratively within the Purchasing Team to understand and support business strategy
• Implement the supplier tendering and selection process
• Negotiate and draw up contracts with the selected supplier(s)
• Steer industrialisation and digitalisation in line with strategy
• Consolidate supplier assessments (quality, logistics, purchasing)
• Steer the supplier improvement action plans (improving operational performance, reducing costs)
• Manage supplier relations
• Ensure compliance with contractual and legal obligations of all parties
• Keep all purchase data up to date in systems
• Pro-actively deal with disputes
• Manage needs developments
• Ensure promotion of best practices in relation to your suppliers
• Act as a relay/ support for the Category Manager for your particular scope of activity, and report back on the information required for coordination
• Support the process for source start-up
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and internal standards

What We Would Love to See

• 5+ years experience within a Buyer position
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Strong numerical skills
• Highly organised, structured approach and able to work using own initiative
• Focused and task-oriented with resilience to complete a task in full
• Good communication, listening and negotiation abilities
• Knowledge of Industrial and Purchasing policies legal knowledge (contract)
• Knowledge of Lean-Sigma tools
• Previous experience within a purchasing team using purchasing information systems

Desirable

• Project Management experience
• Business Administration qualifications or similar
• Previous Customer Service Training qualification
• CIPS qualifications

If this position is of interest, we would love to hear from you.