Buyer - Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Thorpe Molloy McCulloch Recruitment

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Aberdeen, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Buyer (6 months) - VR/26833:


Status:
Temporary


Location:
Aberdeen City Centre


Ref:
VR/26833


Rate:
Available Upon Request


Requirement for a Buyer to join an E&P company in Aberdeen for an initial 6-month contract, with scope for extension and potential to become permanent.

The organisation promotes a hybrid working arrangement, with three days in the office and two days at home.

As Buyer, you'll be responsible for supporting the business in ensuring delivery of high-quality purchase orders with vendors. In addition, you'll be tasked with supporting continuous process improvements and operational efficiency/productivity gains in the function.

You'll also act as a first escalation point for local supplier issues and ensure that the local stakeholders are appropriately trained on Procurement tools.


Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Working in full compliance with the company Buying policy, educating and driving the correct behaviours of business stakeholders.
  • Building effective stakeholder relationships across all company locations, ensuring a high service level in terms buyer functional delivery.
  • Partnering with internal customers to positively influence spending decisions, to analyse and make recommendations to the business.
  • Understanding the needs of business groups and validating the requirements are justified.
  • Ensuring availability of all goods and services in time proactively supporting business owners to ensure equipment/ consumables/ service availability to meet agreed timescales.
  • Executing purchase orders including full tracking up to delivery on site.
  • Supporting the implementation of catalogues and promoting/executing with local requesters higher spend penetration through catalogues.
  • Identifying savings opportunities and partnering with Category Managers to deliver savings through tenders/negotiations/contract renewals.
  • Significant experience in SAP and as a Buyer.
  • Experience in best practice PR to PO processes.
  • Good understanding of overall procurement topics with a special focus on buying processes and relevant tools.
  • Good understanding of procurement cycle, procurement theory and best practice.
  • Technical understanding of workings and logic in procurement and payment tools including SAP ERP.
  • Minimum 5 years' experience of working in a similar role, or with similar responsibilities.
  • Good understanding of oil and gas industry.
  • Ability to take good practice from within the organisation and deploy within procurement.
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