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Graduate Buyer
Balmoral Comtec, a division of Balmoral Group, provides surface and subsurface buoyancy, insulation, and elastomer products and services to the global energy, defence, subsea communications, and oceanographic industries.
We are recruiting for a recent Graduate for a Graduate Buyer position within the Engineering Department in Aberdeen.
Brief Description Of The Job's Function
Supporting the Supply Chain, the Graduate Buyer procures all project-related requirements in a sound, ethical manner and in accordance with requirements to assure on-time delivery to the end customer.
- Will work to a budget set by Proposals and will look to negotiate all request for quotes to ensure we procure better than budget but not to the detriment of quality.
- Purchases items consistent with price, desired quality, and requirement date.
- Expedites orders to meet on-time delivery from suppliers.
Main Duties And Responsibilities Of The Jobholder
- Selects suitable sources, requests bids as necessary, evaluates quotation, and makes final supplier selection.
- Verifies that Bill of Materials details are correct and complete and highlight to your immediate supervisor, any discrepancies.
- Negotiates pricing, lead times, and terms, conditions, and recommends best commercial options ensuring budgets are met.
- Capture and report to immediate supervisor any anomalies with BOM, budget vs actual costs, lead-times, etc.
- Performs order expediting activities as required.
- Liaise with Projects personnel highlighting any issues with achieving requested deliveries.
- Establish and build good working relationships with suppliers.
- Adhere to the Approved Vendor supplier procedure with regards to setting up suppliers on our approved vendor listing (AVL).
- Collate and prepare pre-tender documents to be issued to suppliers for specific tenders.
- Review and report Scorecards for allocated suppliers.
- To be trained on a variety of supply chain group activities to be able to provide absence cover.
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Qualifications
Required:
- Graduated from further education.
Experience
Required:
- Experience within working in a purchasing department on all tendering and purchasing processes.
- Proficient at dealing with setting up suppliers on an Approved Vendor Listing.
- A good Graduate knowledge and experience of buying materials and services.
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Skills / Training
- Demonstrate an ability to effectively utilize resources, and the ability to plan, control, and take responsibility for own work.
- A good knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel packages.
- Strong communication skills.
- General office administration experience.
- Keyboard and computer systems skills.
- Computer literacy.
- Familiarity with Balmoral Group business and systems.
- Familiarity with Balmoral Group products and services.
Key Competencies
Required:
- Good presentation, communication, and people skills.
- Good teamwork.
Additional Responsibilities
- Follow QA System.
- Follow Purchasing Procedure.
- Follow company’s Health & Safety Procedures.
- Responsible for responding to demands of job (as required out of hours working).
Working with Balmoral, you get the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment that is varied and challenging - with potential for career progression.
Please note that Balmoral is unable to support employment visa sponsorship at this time.
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