Role: Junior Buyer

Location: Colchester, Essex

Salary: £25,000 - £30,000 p/a

Requirement: Support Engineering firm with administration duties in purchasing and buying activity

Opportunity: This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic and self motivated individual to join a thriving engineering business who are looking for a Junior Buyer to join the administration and operations team supporting in activity across purchasing function.

Role Overview:

Are you good at juggling multiple projects and delivering accurate documentation in a challenging environment, responding to supplier needs and engineers requests within tight deadlines? This is an opportunity to develop your career in Supply Chain and Procurement with a fantastic international business, you will work closely with engineers and operations to provide purchasing support across a range of activity. You will need to be good at recognising priorities and coordinating logistical company arrangements.

Core Function: Carrying out purchasing activity in line with company expectations concerning price, quality and delivery

• Controls costs
• Obtains quotes and negotiates prices
• Raises purchase orders
• Follows-up on deliveries
• Updates records
• Rectifies problems
• Controls stock.

If you have experience across these areas or you have experience in administrative support and want to give your career some direction into a developmental pathway through supply chain and procurement and you want to join a people centred international engineering business then contact me directly today send your CV to tom.dykes@1st-executive.com and and please apply online so we can arrange a time to discuss your background, suitability and the role itself in more detail.