Buyer - Folkestone, United Kingdom - Reed Procurement & Supply Chain

Reed Procurement & Supply Chain

Verified Company

Folkestone, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

A well-known brand is looking to recruit a buyer into their procurement team

Day to day duties include:

Supporting Procurement operations for internal clients, covering a range of purchasing categories and ensuring best value is achieved.
Establish contracts that will allow the acquisition of equipment, works and/or services within the technical purchasing division (infrastructure, operations, facilities and work train)
Source and draft the "bidders list": before the launch of a consultation, ensuring the list of service providers are compliant
Prepare consultation files: draft contract, price schedule, technical specification, and associated documents.
Conduct analysis of commercial offers: drafting of the "Commercial Bid Tabulation (CBT)"
Organise meetings and supports the client requesting the services, to "challenge" the suppliers' offers
Conduct the final negotiation and drafting of the CBT
Monitor supplier performance: maintain support for the project manager or contract manager, evaluating

Assisting the Procurement team in compliance with best practice, national and European laws, and company procedures.

Requirement:

Fluent in English (spoken and written). French would be an advantage.
The ideal person will have a circa 3 years' experience as a buy, ideally in a technical or projectbased role
Experience using SAP or a similar system
Advanced Excel

Some of the benefits include: