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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
- Liaises with Projects personnel highlighting any issues with achieving requested deliveries
- Establish and build good working relationships with suppliers
- Adhere to the Approved Vender supplier procedure with regards to setting up suppliers on our approved vender 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 able to provide absence cover.
THE JOBHOLDER
Qualifications, Experience, Skills And Training & Key Competencies
Note that criteria listed as “Required” will be strictly applied in the recruitment process – candidates who do not meet these criteria will be rejected.
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 Vender Listing
- A good Graduate knowledge and experience of buying materials and services.
Skills / Training
Required:
- Demonstrate an ability to effectively utilise 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.