Buyer

It’s an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, while allowing you to develop your skills and knowledge in a specific field. Additionally, you will be able to work with a team of professionals who are passionate about their work and dedicated to providing the best possible service to our customers.

This role involves being responsible for providing best practice procurement, supply and stock management activities. Purchasing goods for resale to meet customer requirements including liaison and negotiation with suppliers, sourcing products from a global supply base and preparing and evaluating tenders. They would also be responsible for supporting of the companies’ procurement strategy in order to deliver cost savings and process improvements and ensuring that the company’s competitive position is maintained and enhanced at all times. Our ideal candidate will have experience, or be ready, to step into an Buyer role, bringing an entrepreneurial spirit and excellent communication skills.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, then please get in touch and show us you’ve got the right attitude, ambition, and commitment to join our team.

About Arrow County Supplies

Our customer-centric operations are supported by the right tools, processes and systems to make sure we provide consistently high and dependable service. Established in 1976, we have over 45 years of experience within the cleaning and janitorial industry and have always strived to be different.

Our focus is to put our customers at the heart of everything we do and to deliver great cleaning products, insightful and valuable advice as well as an unrivalled personal service. This dedication to providing a high-quality personal service is embedded into our organisational DNA and is the driving force behind our approach to the business of cleaning products in the UK. Every member of our team plays a critical role and is focused on delivering on our promises.

Purpose

Skills/Attributes Required

• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with staff, stakeholders and suppliers.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to negotiate with suppliers.
• Assertive, resilient and welcomes change
• A proactive approach with regards to cost saving and efficiency opportunities.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Good numerical and analytical skills.
• Ability to work along with other departments as a team player
• Ability to communicate with confidence and build respect
• Ideally experience with SAP Business One
• Ability to manage time, work to schedules and follow procedures
• Clear understanding of the Company’s policies, particularly regarding acceptable standards of behaviour

Primary Responsibilities

Supplier Relationships

• Manage relationships with existing suppliers and identify new alternative suppliers
• Negotiate most advantageous commercial terms including maximising rebate agreements and early payment discounts to achieve product cost saving targets
• Maximise supplier contributions through marketing budgets, transport discounts and other funding streams available
• Liaise with suppliers to achieve supplier conformance to ACS requirements

Purchasing

• Identify best routes of source, yielding improved BP and savings.
• Competitively source new/special products through supplier relationship or by the Insight team request
• Working with QC and Compliance on product rationalisation and using this where possible to negotiate improved BP.
• Grow and develop our Private Label product portfolio.
• Providing administrative support on all aspects of the tender process including data gathering, desk-based sourcing, collation of quotations and cost comparison, supplier evaluation and collation of samples.

What will you get from Arrow?

• The Company offer a wide range of benefits available to our team such as Holiday Purchase Schemes, Birthday Day Off, Early Friday Finish, Free Food and Drinks Provision, Rewards Schemes, Staff Discount and many more.
• Investment in academic development (incl. CIPS)
• Internal progression opportunities including cross-departmental