Job Title: Junior Buyer
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Location: Hove, East Sussex
Salary: £25,000 per annum
Working pattern: Full-time, permanent, office-based with moderate national travel as required.
Full Training provided
TPA Recruit is supporting a specialist electrical engineering and manufacturing business in the search for a Junior Buyer.
This is a full-time, permanent purchasing role supporting the Senior Buyer across day-to-day procurement, supplier contact, quotations, purchase orders and material delivery. The role would suit someone with previous buying, purchasing or procurement experience who is ready to develop within a busy manufacturing environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Issue tenders and requests for quotations to suppliers and subcontract service providers.
- Support supplier selection, pricing discussions, quality standards and required delivery dates.
- Place purchase orders for components, materials, services and non-manufacturing requirements.
- Expedite supplier deliveries, review planned delivery dates and flag supply risks early.
- Help maintain accurate supplier lists, purchasing records and supplier details.
- Support supply chain development to reduce single-source constraints and improve resilience.
Experience Required
- Confident communication skills with suppliers, colleagues and management.
- Able to plan, co-ordinate and follow through tasks accurately.
- Computer literate, with Progress Plus or Sage experience advantageous but not essential.
- Assertive, organised and precise, with the confidence to follow up suppliers and take ownership.
- A team-focused approach with a personal commitment to cost, quality and delivery targets.
Why Join This Business?
- Permanent, full-time opportunity with a stable local engineering business.
- £25,000 salary with scope to develop within purchasing and procurement.
- Hands-on role supporting live manufacturing and project delivery activity. xgikmsk
- Opportunity to build supplier relationships and strengthen the supply chain.
- Office-based Hove position, suitable for candidates across Brighton, Hove and the ...
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