Title: Buyer for the construction industry
Based on site full time- Port of Nigg
Reporting to Procurement Management
Outline
As a fundamental member of the Supply function, with responsibility for direct reports, the Project Buyer will take ultimate “ownership” of relevant key projects within the company’s cross-functional team structure, covering all operational issues following design conception through to completion and delivery of the tangible product to the client.
Responsibilities
- Drive the progress of projects within the team, taking full ownership for your own projects to ensure they are delivered as required.
- Provide status information, including any actions required to mitigate operational issues to relevant members of the team in a timely manner.
- Ensure best price and delivery by means of benchmarking, interrogation of cost and negotiation with suppliers prior to submitting final costs.
- Work proactively on methods to drive efficiency and reduce cost by means of optimising use of the supply chain.
- Work with your team to ensure they are working smartly to allow resource to be used optimally.
- Maintain budgetary control of all projects within the field of responsibility, providing a major contribution to the company’s financial reporting system.
- Through active consultation with direct reports & fellow team members, particularly the Project Manager, plan and facilitate work throughput, responding to and controlling change to ensure appropriate prioritization of tasks and adherence to internal SLAs.
- Ensure appropriate quality control / assurance is maintained at all stages of the supply chain. Planning and overseeing on-site supervision of work in progress where necessary.
- Interact directly with our overseas liaison offices, suppliers, partners, and inter-company divisions by way of conventional communications media and when necessary, foreign travel.
- Work with the Procurement Manager & Commercial Manager to help drive new supplier selection, development, and performance initiatives on a world-wide basis.
- Provide advice and intelligence to Designers and Sales staff on the external processes and services we manage, in terms of availability and prevailing commercial influences.
Requirements-
- A track record of project buying within the construction industry.
- An understanding of technical drawings.
- Knowledge of the Export / Import process.
- Direct experience of managing both domestic and over-seas suppliers, ideally in the Far East, UK & Eastern Europe.
- Computer literacy with a high level of competence with spreadsheets, internal production planning software, Word & PowerPoint.
- Highly numerate, able to analyse and add value to data.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent budget control
- Willingness to explore all angles to achieve solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,
- First-rate organisational skills.
- A high energy level is an essential attribute.