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 requests 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 highlights to your immediate supervisor any discrepancies.
• Negotiates pricing, lead times and terms, conditions and recommends best commercial options ensuring budgets are met.
• Captures and reports 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.
• Establishes and builds good working relationships with suppliers.
• Adheres to the Approved Vendor supplier procedure with regards to setting up suppliers on our approved vendor listing (AVL).
• Collates and prepares pre-tender documents to be issued to suppliers for specific tenders.
• Reviews and reports Scorecards for allocated suppliers.
• To be trained on a variety of supply chain group activities to be able to provide absence cover.

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 Vendor 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.