Overview
Insight Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Buyer
Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom. 2 days a week in office.
Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud, and service solutions, guiding clients to define, architect, implement and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow.
Responsibilities
* Responsible for the correct placement and fulfilment of purchase orders to distributors, including proactive confirmation of purchase orders and obtaining tracking information for shipments, in line with audit requirements.
* Recommend major purchases of materials based on anticipated price changes or unusual availability situations, balancing cash flow against potential price savings.
* Liaise with Sales and Support teams to inform them of availability and delivery dates to maximise sales potential.
* Ensure delivery dates in the system are accurate and updated where applicable.
* Backlog management: ensure all POs are placed on receipt and follow up with distributors for ETAs.
* Manage incoming workflow requests, ensuring all tickets are responded to within SLA.
* Adhere to Insight’s policies and procedures in line with revenue recognition.
* Respond to email requests from Sales and Support regarding post-supply issues within SLA.
* Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and maintain good communications.
* Liaise with suppliers over pricing and supply issues.
* Manage and update aged inventory aligned with targets set by management.
* Liaise with Product Management around deal stock to maximise competitive pricing.
* Ensure fill-rates are met in line with the buyer’s category targets.
This list is not exhaustive; you may be required to undertake additional responsibilities as reasonably requested by your manager.
Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge And Experience
* Working towards a recognised qualification; educated to degree level or equivalent work experience.
* Evidence of continuing professional development; holds relevant professional qualification (e.g. CIPS).
* Out-going, personable, responsible, self-motivated and confident; proactive communicator.
* High level of written and spoken English; ability to develop and exploit productive relationships both inside and outside the team.
* Fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel and Word); ability to identify and implement effective systems to monitor performance.
* Experience of providing a high level of client service; strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to negotiate, influence and build trust.
* Ability to work as part of a team and independently; ability to build and strengthen working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
* Ability to build relationships, set expectations and negotiate with IT Vendors; awareness of competitors and willingness to extend knowledge of the IT industry.
* Excellent understanding of product type, product range, software and hardware categories; ability to interpret and analyse business and technical reports and present to senior stakeholders.
* Experience with supply chain work; results-oriented with ability to plan and deliver against deadlines.
* Good knowledge of licensing terms and ability to deal with software categories; self-developer who invests in own development and encourages others.
About Insight
We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with autonomy and creativity.
We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and has grown to a Global IT Services and Solutions business focused on helping customers and the people behind them.
Application Details
Insight is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
We will endeavour to contact you within five business days if your profile matches this role. If you do not hear within this timeframe, please presume the application was not successful.
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