Location: Shirley
Type of Role: Permanent, Full Time

What We’re Looking For:

We are looking for a bright, highly motivated, and ambitious individual to join our fast-paced and growing buying team to Train as Buyer. Your role as an assistant / trainee buyer will be assisting the buying team to help them fulfil their duties whilst training to undertake the tasks of a buyer (listed below).

This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to start their career within procurement and develop themselves professionally to become a key asset to the buying team and to a highly reputable construction company, within a high standards and high rewards environment. 

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Answering and logging calls received from site.

• Order materials required for projects in accordance with established prices ensuring requirements for quality and lead times are met.

• Raising purchase orders for supplier materials.

• Undertake pricing negotiation with suppliers in accordance with buying procedures.

• Have an up to date understanding of market conditions and feed this back to the buying team and relevant parts of the business.

• Develop close working relationships with the wider commercial team to make sure budget information in terms of quantity and price are accurate.

• Source new or alternative products and liaise and negotiate with both new and existing suppliers when required.

• Manage, organise and update relevant information using relevant database – Red Sky and/ or excel spreadsheet ensuring correct rates are used and information is accurate.

• Monitor open orders and chase to completion/ rescheduling if necessary.  Liaise with production staff and other internal departments on any discrepancies between purchase date and required date or price discrepancies.

• Be extremely responsive to acting on requests/ chasing information to complete an order.

• Assist the Purchase Ledger team with query resolution.

• Be familiar with project requirements by reviewing minutes and liaising with the site management team and Quantity Surveyor.

• Buyers with additional duties/ specialist areas such as aggregates/ block and beam are expected to have additional knowledge and expertise in that area and ensure all related admin/ filing/ communication has been completed.

• Communicate and provide information by relevant methods internally and externally to assist and enable organisational operations and effective service between offices/ clients/ sites/ suppliers.

• Other duties as reasonably required from time to time.

Requirements:

• No previous relevant experience necessary.

• However relevant experience and a background working for a builders merchants/groundworkers/ house builders/ civil engineers may be advantageous.

• At least 5 GCSE's grade A-C and at least 3 B's at A Level (or equivalent).

• Excellent computer skills, including Word and Excel.

• Effective oral and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Demonstrate an extremely high level of confidentiality.

• Excellent organisational skills.

• Must be able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.

• Must be able to gather and analyse information skilfully.

• Confident, ambitious and motivated personality.