Junior Buyer

Junior Buyer

• Excellent opportunity to develop a purchasing career within a rapidly growing engineering business
• Be a part of a personable team that support one another.
• Day shift working hours / early Friday finish, and excellent benefits.

We are currently recruiting for a Junior Buyer who can support operations by placing purchase orders, maintaining supplier relationships, monitoring delivery performance and ensuring materials are available to support manufacturing operations while achieving quality, cost and delivery targets.

Salary & Package: c£30,000 as a guide + 25 days holiday + banks. Wider development opportunities.

This Junior Buyer job will suit:

• Organised individual with excellent communication skills looking to start a career within purchasing.
• Comfortable with IT packages, such as MS Office, Excel.
• Strong analytical / numerical skills.
• Ideally have some prior experience using ERP / MRP systems.
• Some purchasing / procurement experience, preferably within an engineering or industrial environment would be an advantage.
• Any wider purchasing related qualifications, e.g. CIPS, would be an advantage.

The Junior Buyer job's working environment, opportunities and rewards:

• Leading manufacturer with an extremely strong order book.
• Opportunities for further development in house. This is your chance to develop a career within a highly desirable engineering industry.
• Competitive salary and package with possible flexibility for the right person.

The Junior Buyer job will involve:

• Raise purchase orders in accordance with company purchasing procedures.
• Monitor supplier order acknowledgements and delivery dates.
• Expedite outstanding purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery.
• Liaise with Production Planning, Stores, Quality and Manufacturing to understand material requirements.
• Source quotations from approved suppliers.
• Compare supplier quotations considering cost, lead time, quality and capability.
• Maintain accurate purchasing records within the ERP/MRP system.

This job is commutable from Coalville, Nuneaton, Market Bosworth

Reference: JP-JB12

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