TEXO Recruitment have a new opportunity for a Graduate Buyer to join our external client on a full-time, permanent basis in Aberdeen

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious individual, keen to join a growing and established business, where the candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Supporting the Supply Chain, the Graduate Buyer procures all project related requirements in a sound, ethical manner and in accordance with requirements to assure on time delivery to the end customer.
• Will work to a budget set by Proposals and will look to negotiate all request for quotes to ensure we procure better than budget but not to the detriment of quality
• Purchases items consistent with price, desired quality, and requirement date
• Expedites orders to meet on time delivery from suppliers

Daily duties of the job holder:

• Selects suitable sources, requests bids as necessary, evaluates quotation and makes final supplier selection.
• Verifies that Bill of Materials details are correct and complete and highlight to your immediate supervisor, any discrepancies.
• Negotiates pricing, lead times and terms, conditions and recommends best commercial options ensuring budgets are met.
• Capture and report to immediate supervisor any anomalies with BOM, budget vs actual costs, lead-times etc.
• Performs order expediting activities as required
• Liaises with Projects personnel highlighting any issues with achieving requested deliveries
• Establish and build good working relationships with suppliers
• Adhere to the Approved Vender supplier procedure with regards to setting up suppliers on our approved vender listing (AVL)
• Collate and prepare pre-tender documents to be issued to suppliers for specific tenders
• Review and report Scorecards for allocated suppliers.
• To be trained on a variety of supply chain group activities to able to provide absence cover.

Candidate Requirements

• Experience within working in a purchasing department on all tendering and purchasing processes.
• Proficient at dealing with setting up suppliers on an Approved Vender Listing
• A good Graduate knowledge and experience of buying materials and services.

Additional:

• Demonstrate an ability to effectively utilise resources, and the ability to plan, control, and take responsibility for own work
• A good knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel packages
• Strong communication skills
• General office administration experience
• Keyboard and computer systems skills.
• Computer literacy

To apply for this role please contact Aimee on 01224 446789 or Apply Now.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £25,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: 1922

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