Buyer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Northern Employment Services
Description
Northern Employment Services are looking to recruit an experienced Buyer in the Manchester area on a straight permanent basis, working with one of our fantastic ever growing clients.
Hours of work for a Buyer : Monday to Friday - 8am to 4pm or alternatively 9am to 5pm
Salary for a Buyer:
£31,000 to £38,000 annual, depending on experience
Duties & Responsibilities of a Buyer:
- Actively mentoring of graduate &/or apprentice members of the Procurement & Contracts team
- Partner with stakeholders to ensuring spending is managed appropriately
- Interacting with high profile stakeholders and suppliers
- Ongoing management of subcategories and resources, including reviews and development
- Sourcing process with the procurement of goods, services and work on all categories.
- Preparing "request for proposals" and "request for quotations". Highlighting inconsistencies and differences, presenting such for evaluation.
- Carrying out supplier evaluations and conducting negotiations for procurement exercises.
- Preparing orders under procurement governance.
- Support Procurement & Contracts Management
- Working closely with other key function in the company, keeping them aware of and seek views/changes
Personal attributes for the Buyer to bring:
- The ability to identify and escalate issues / non compliance appropriately
- Lead external commercial negotiations of projects and resolve disputes
- Overcome challenges with stakeholder engagement is critical in order to ensure buyin to projects for the benefit of the overall group
Experience or knowledge required from a Buyer:
- Experience of the Public Contract Regulation's &/or Utility Contract Regulation's
- Basic knowledge of law and experience of contract formation / administration / management
- Experience of tender processes and relevant "Find A Tender" regulations
- Excellent analytical skills, strong commercial awareness, a measured approach to decision making and the ability to ensure best value procurement
- Experience of cost and price analysis with ability to evaluate tender processes
- Demonstrate working with a wide range of stakeholders & executing relationships successfully
- Office proficient & MCIPS or interest in studying towards
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