Commercial Buyer - Norwich, United Kingdom - Saffron Housing Trust

Saffron Housing Trust

Verified Company

Norwich, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

We are recruiting for a Commercial Buyer to lead the commercial functions of Crocus Homes, to procure materials and plant competitively and to drive innovative improvements to our business.

Key responsibilities include:

Responsible for the buying for sites of varying complexity ensuring the site team meet the required standards and programme milestones.
Scheduling of materials from drawings to raise purchase orders for the site team to call off, in an accurate and efficient way to maintain schedules, all within budget.
Produce recommendations on material, plant and other deliverable functions within the business to ensure competitive prices and budgets are maintained to achieve strong profitability across our sites.
Research, recommend and embed a new system (COINS or similar) to allow the wider commercial team to set up new sites to establish budgets and ensuring cost control for developments built.
Regularly provide valuable input to the Managing Director and Operations Director when making key business decisions and attend management level meetings as needed.
Please see the full list of responsibilities on the Role Profile attached._
Management experience at a senior level.
Experience in the management of a buying function within the housing or construction market.
Previous experience with a volume house builder.
Relevant Building Industry Qualifications and Training.
COINS or similarly trained.
Possess excellent negotiating skills.
Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of people.
Ability to liaise with internal and external personnel.
Ability to plan and programme work methods and build sequence for sites.
Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
Ability to lead, manage and motivate a team.
Control preliminary costs in accordance with budget.
Ability to work to deadlines in a fastpaced environment.
Ability to work on own initiative, with excellent attention to detail.
Proficient IT skills along with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and outlook) and systems such as COINS.
Full UK Driving Licence / Ability to travel daily to development sites and Head Office.