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Buyer - TW082

Cheltenham

Our client is the global leader within their industry! Headquartered in Staverton, Cheltenham they successfully delivered over 300 facilities across Europe, North America, Australia and Africa and they were recently featured in the Financial Times 1000 and ranked in the top 500 of the fastest-growing companies in Europe.

As an integral part of the Commercial Team your main responsibility will be to drive the performance of procurement decisions across various healthcare schemes. You will be responsible for evaluating and selecting suppliers, negotiating terms and prices and ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality and adherence to specifications.

You must have effective communication and negotiation skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a fast-paced environment. You will play a strategic role in nurturing supplier relationships, advancing rebate opportunities and ensuring that all contractual conditions are met with purchase and subcontract orders.

Responsibilities:
-Negotiate terms & conditions and pricing to comply for betterment against cost plan allowances
-Develop a good understanding of how your own work integrates with the wider project teams
-Ability and confidence to resolve issues based upon knowledge and adherence within established company procedures
-Ability to explain technical information to others, as well as understanding or challenging procurement scheduled materials for correctness.
-Identify potential alternative suppliers to expand the existing supply chain
-Pro-actively manage suppliers to achieve deliveries on time
-Pro-active avoidance of any potential risks relating to late product delivery
-Be able to recognise items that require immediate purchasing priority as required to meet deadlines
-Managing plant hire budgets and chasing off-hire confirmations
-Onboarding new suppliers
-Generate and populate packing lists in liaison with Factory Storeman

Candidate Attributes:
-Previous experience working within a fast-paced purchasing function
-Strong negotiation and communication skills
-Good organisational skills with the ability to work on multiple projects at once
-Excellent attention to detail

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm

Salary: Highly competitive depending on experience (able to disclose upon application) + leading benefits package including private healthcare and access to mental health wellness and other wellbeing resources, an onsite gym, a state of the art coffee machine and free parking

Salary: Highly competitive depending on experience

Hours Per Week: Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm

To Apply: Contact the advertiser in the contact details on the right of the advert on GlosJobs.
 

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