Buyer / Procurement Manager

Salary: £48,000 per year

Ref: JR1458

Vacancy: Senior Buyer / Procurement Manager

Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire

Industry: Electrical wholesale products

Salary: Up to circa £48,000per annum + bonuses and other benefits including private healthcare

Oversee and lead the purchasing and stock control departments of over £48,000million pounds worth of stock within the business.

Managing one other buyer / stock controller and helping develop a strong procurement team in a professional manner.

The Role:

• Head up all things in relation to purchasing

• Communicate with our suppliers with good negotiation & relationship building

• Instigate company product training & supplier introduction/ networking with the team

• Manage and set out your procurement team as you see fit

• Manage stock levels to achieve good stock turns working in hand with our sales levels and predictions ( current stock £1Million + )

• Improve credit terms & get additional credit on large orders to achieve higher creditor days

• Negotiate new and improved rebates to maximise our spending power

• Keep on top of all returns & keep write-down to a minimum (with cleanses and sales or return caveats with suppliers)

• Maximise the discounts and net prices we can achieve through our buying power

• Cement supplier relationships

• Consolidate areas of faster moving product, to enable us to focus our sales teams to sell what we want to push

The Package

• Salary: £48,000 (depending on candidate)

• Laddered scale of growth % bonus reward based on NP ( for your annual bonus)

• Automatically opted in after 3 months to company pension scheme ( up to 3% contribution matched)

• Private health care for you and your family (Vitality)

• Company Car VW golf Diesel, with fuel card

• Laptop

• 22 days paid holiday ( in addition all bank holidays & extra days over Xmas week)

• Hours 8am – 5:30pm Monday – Friday ( with 30 min lunch break) occasional Saturday morning 8am -12pm [1 in every 5 weeks]

The Person

The ideal candidate will have buying experience in an electrical wholesale environment and a good understanding of electrical products and their pricing structures.

If you are looking for a great opportunity to extend your buying experience, please send your CV

All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Rhodium Consulting Ltd is a niche recruitment consultancy specialising in wholesalers, merchants and distributors within the building products sector. We strive to be the industry leader in delivering the highest calibre of candidates to our client companies, whilst enhancing the careers of our candidates. For further information and contact details, please apply.