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Job Title: Buyer
Location: Stormking- Tamworth
Reports To: Finance Manager
Job Purpose:
You are responsible for managing all company purchases including negotiating prices and placing orders as well as raw material stock management and forecasting. You will be required to build strong relationships with suppliers ensuring best value for money and consistent availability of raw materials and consumables.
Key Accountabilities:
1. Build strong relationships with suppliers, negotiate best prices and ensure continual supply of all raw materials and consumables
2. Place all orders for raw materials, consumables and PPE with suppliers
3. Process purchase order requests for all other departments (i.e. maintenance, IT, Customer Service, transport etc.) – Via Requisition system.
4. Process credit card payments
5. Manage kitchen supplies and stationery ensuring the usage is controlled
6. Work closely with the PL clerk to identify and resolve supplier invoice queries
7. Manage the supplier quality rejects/returns procedure
8. Manage the weekly stock take procedure to ensuring any discrepancies are investigated and resolved, and process weekly stock adjustments journal in BC
9. Process any stock adjustments to ensure the system stocks match the physical stocks – investigate any unusual adjustments
10. Support materials forecasting ensuring all orders placed are received in accordance with the materials forecast
11. Process goods received in BC where necessary
12. Provide adhoc support to the finance team and wider business where applicable
Key Experiences and Skills Required:
13. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision to accomplish team goals and objectives
14. Computer literate
15. Excellent verbal and written skills
16. High attention to detail
Desirables Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:
17. Exposure to an ERP system would be advantageous
Personal Attributes:
18. Driven by results – Decisive, confident addressing problems and opportunities, challenging activities to improve performance, demonstrate willingness to challenge accepted methods and standards
19. Action orientated – Able to deal with problems in appropriate time frames
20. Effective communication – Clear concise written and spoken, ability at all levels, customer, supplier and internal
21. Strategic agility – recognition of a changing need and speed of response, rapid reaction to challenges
22. High Standards – demonstrating a motivation to improve standards and thereby making a real difference, challenging inadequate solutions
23. Integrity and trust – demonstrating a sense of commitment to openness, honesty, loyalty and high standards in undertaking the role
24. People management – demonstrating commitment to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders