Assistant Buyer - Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Peterson Recruitment

Peterson Recruitment

Verified Company

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Roles & responsibilities:

Develop and maintain relationships with clients, supplier and internal stakeholders.
Process customer enquiries.

Strong sourcing skills

Ability to identify the manufacturer of the goods and source direct.

Strong technical skills

Ability to identify the manufacturer, source the goods direct or offer alternatives.
Placing purchase orders on suppliers to fulfil customers requirements.
Achieve material delivery and process deadlines.
Ensure compliance with company and client quality management system.
Secondment of procurement and technical support to third parties.
Attend client / supplier meetings if required.
Supplier contract management.
Introduce cost saving measures and alternative stock lines.
Margin management with an aim to move client to cost less.
Sourcing and procurement of stock items.
Review of month end stock results and offer feedback.
Assist with tender pricings as and when required.
Ensure that all procedures are compiled with and all actions are auditable.
Ensure that all procedures in relation to the transportation of dangerous goods are complied with.
Ability to work within a busy department and cope with the pressure of meeting demanding targets and working to tight deadlines.
Answering of telephones.
Assist with other duties in the sales office as required.

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We are a global procurement team, specialising in non-strategic, high volume, low-value items as well as ad-hoc procurement.

We help clients better manage their tail spend, drive efficiencies with our e-procurement technology and allow buying teams more time to focus on high-value strategic purchasing.

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