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- To ensure that employees are adequately trained to carry out their roles using good practice.
- Must have experience in a Purchasing Manager role.
- A strategic approach with commercial awareness
- Microsoft Office (Excel / Word) to intermediate level.
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Buying Manager - Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom - Simmonsigns
Description
An excellent opportunity for a Purchasing Manager who wants to join our market leading family-owned business based in the heart of Shropshire, founded on an ethos of providing solutions for safer roads.
Simmonsigns, established in 1985, offers our customers a diverse range of high-quality products including illuminated and non-illuminated road traffic bollards, signs and sign lights, school warning lights, Belisha beacons and pedestrian crossing lights, posts and subway lighting, all of which combine our latest low energy LED technologies to support the environment and offer a low cost of ownership for road safety solutions.
Benefits for a Purchasing Manager:
Competitive salary
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Purchasing Manager Position Overview:
The company are seeking an enthusiastic and capable Purchasing Manager to take responsibility for the purchasing of components used in the manufacture of the company's LED road safety equipment.
Key Responsibilities of a Purchasing Manager:
Skills and Qualifications required of a Purchasing Manager: