Buyer/Planner - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Engage Recruitment Ltd

Description

Are you a supply chain professional with drive and hunger to succeed? Does the opportunity to work with a leading family business excite you?

You've proven yourself to be a strong communicator, you're results-oriented with a proven track record of delivering solutions. You have a natural ability to influence a variety of colleagues and the capability to drive value from analytics, develop and support the continual purchasing and planning objectives.

As part of this role you'll be:

• Sourcing suppliers
• Achieving cost reduction
• Developing Supplier relationships
• Managing Materials
• Planning & Forecasting
• Negotiating contracts

Ideally, you'll have:

• Knowledge of buying and planning
• Strong commercial/business acumen.
• A team player mentality, be able to work with a small team and build strong and collaborative relationships across the whole business.
• Excellent communication skills
• Good negotiation and persuasion skills. Ability to convince others and influence outcomes
• Agility and flexibility
• Strong problem analysis, judgement and decision-making skills.

This is an exciting time to work within a well-established organisation that is forward-thinking, values-driven and going through a really exciting period of growth.

For more information on this role, please attach your CV.