Technical Buyer

Offering £30,000 – £35,000 Basic Salary plus Great Benefits

Our client is an established manufacturing facility based in Harrogate. Due to continued growth, they are now recruiting a Technical Buyer to join their business. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing suppliers, ensuring best quality, services and commercial terms are achieved whilst working within the team to ensure an efficient, friendly and professional procurement service.

Technical Buyer – Key Responsibilities
• Purchase products and services to meet the company’s needs.
• Collaborate with department managers to ensure continuity of supply of all necessary raw materials and consumables in line with the broader sales and production forecasts.
• Tender generation and evaluation through to contract, ensuring best practices are adhered to and best possible commercial terms achieved.
• Maintain supplier on-boarding and performance assessment procedures and ISO 9001 standards ensuring continuous improvements to service levels and commercial terms for the business.
• Ensure systems are maintained to reflect agreements.
• Collaborate with internal departments to support with departmental needs; including product sourcing, pricing, technical data, bid support and new product development.
• Produce and analyse reports and forecasts as required.
• Solve problems with orders or invoices in an efficient and timely manner.
• Support all team members with shared learning to promote continuous improvement within the team.

Technical Buyer – Additional Duties
• Provide outstanding products and an effortless customer experience.
• Deliver tasks with a focus on quality and quantity.
• Manage, organise and update relevant data/records as required.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change or development.
• Working with customers/colleagues to identify problems and advise on the solution whilst managing expectations of stakeholders.
• Undertake any other duty which may be reasonably required to meet the needs of the business.
• Support our commitment to being an inclusive employer and place to work.

The Technical Buyer position is offering £30,000 – £35,000 basic salary plus great benefits for the successful candidate! This is a full-time, permanent, site based position in Harrogate.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this time frame please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position of Technical Buyer.

This vacancy is being advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd. The services advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd are those of an Employment Agency.