Purchasing Assistant / Buyer
Location – Colchester
Salary - £30,000 – £35,000 + Bonus & Excellent Benefits
Ready to take the next step in your commercial career? This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well established international business that supplies engineering parts and components to customers across Asia, Africa, Australasia, and South America.
If you're looking for a role that blends purchasing, sales support, negotiation, and supplier management—while giving you exposure to global supply chains—this position offers an exciting platform to grow.
The Opportunity
Within your role, you’ll sit at the centre of the organisation, connecting customers, suppliers, logistics, and operations to ensure seamless and timely delivery of essential products worldwide.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys variety, problem?solving, and building strong relationships. If you’re commercially minded, confident on the phone, and eager to gain hands on experience in international procurement and sales, you’ll thrive here.
What You’ll Be Doing
Your responsibilities will include:
Researching and onboarding new vendors
Sourcing, comparing, and negotiating competitive pricing
Preparing accurate quotations for customers
Raising and managing purchase orders
Tracking and progressing orders to ensure on time delivery
Liaising with warehouse and logistics teams to keep things running smoothly
Managing supplier and customer relationships
Providing high-quality customer service and support
A perfect fit for an understanding of a purchasing function seeking to develop their negotiation and commercial skills in a global context.
Who We’re Looking For
You will be:
Confident, articulate, and commercially aware
Experienced in a related purchasing, sales, or administrative role
Strong on the phone with excellent communication skills
Well organised and comfortable managing multiple tasks
Able to build rapport quickly with suppliers and customers
A team player with a positive work ethic
If you happen to have a good Technical understanding of engineering / manufacturing products and can speak a foreign language that would be a huge bonus but is most defiantly not essential
Please note: Own transport is required due to the workplace location.
If you feel this role could be for you then please apply today by clicking through the link with your cv