Junior Stock Buyer
Are you ready to support a busy Procurement and Group Inventory function by ensuring critical engineering materials are always available when needed? Are you looking for a role where your accuracy, organisation, and purchasing support directly contribute to asset uptime and engineering team success?
Your role
As Junior Stock Buyer, you will join a fast‑paced procurement team, working closely with Engineering, Operations and Suppliers to keep our assets operating safely and efficiently. A key focus of your role will be engaging directly with suppliers to purchase inventory materials, ensuring the right parts are sourced at the right time and at the best possible value. You'll help manage stock levels, process purchase orders, maintain accurate data, and support the day‑to‑day rhythm of a busy central stores environment—all while building your skills in procurement and inventory management.
You'll take responsibility for monitoring critical items, tracking deliveries, resolving supplier issues, and keeping material data up to date. As part of your supplier engagement, you'll also support price negotiations, compare quotations, and help drive value through cost‑effective purchasing decisions. Working with teams across the business, you'll help improve stock strategies, support reporting and cycle counts, and contribute to a reliable, efficient supply chain. This is a hands‑on role where your organisation, accuracy, and enthusiasm will make a real impact from day one.
What you'll bring
For this role, we seek:
Essential:
1. Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
2. Experience working in procurement, stock control, materials management, or stores.
3. Understanding of basic stock management principles (e.g., min/max, reorder point, cycle counting).
4. Good communication and relationship‑building skills.
5. Ability to work within processes and maintain high levels of data accuracy.
6. Proficiency with Microsoft Excel (basic formulas, data entry, filtering).
7. Ability to prioritise tasks within a busy operational environment.
8. A customer‑focused and service‑oriented mindset.
9. Minimum GCSE (or equivalent) pass in English and Maths.
Desirable:
10. Familiarity with SAP or another ERP system.
11. Interest in engineering or mechanical/electrical components.
12. Willingness to work toward CIPS or similar supply chain qualifications.
Who are we
Already one of the UK's leading port and logistics companies, our business contains several Statutory Harbour Authorities (SHAs) and as such operate within a Regulated environment. We continue to commit substantial capital investment across our operations to achieve our vision of becoming the UK's leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.
What we can offer you
In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us, which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:
* 27 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
* Matched contribution pension scheme up to 10%
* Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, critical illness insurance, gyms, retail vouchers
* Commitment to learning and personal development
* We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our employee assistance programme when required
If you believe you have the skills and experience, we are seeking, and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we'd really like to hear from you