Graduate Buyer - Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Balmoral Group

Balmoral Group
Balmoral Group
Verified Company
Aberdeen, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Balmoral, a division of Balmoral Group, provides surface and subsurface buoyancy, insulation and elastomer products and services to the global energy, defence, subsea communications and oceanographic industries.


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.


Main Duties

  • 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, leadtimes 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 pretender 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.

Qualifications

  • Graduated from further education.

Experience

Required:

  • 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.

Skills & Training

Required:

  • 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.
  • Familiarity with Balmoral Group business and systems.
  • Familiarity with Balmoral Group products and services.

Key Competencies:


Required:

  • Good presentation, communication and people skills.
  • Good teamwork.

Additional Responsibilities

  • Follow QA System
  • Follow Purchasing Procedure
  • Follow company's Health & Safety Procedures
  • Responsible for responding to demands of job (as required out of hours working)


The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position.

They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the incumbent of this position.

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