Buyer

Team Jobs - Commercial; Christchurch; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

TeamJobs are recruiting for an experienced Buyer to join a manufacturing procurement team in Bournemouth on a maternity-cover contract. You will play a key role in ensuring components arrive on time, building strong supplier relationships, and resolving purchasing queries to keep production running smoothly.

Duties include raising purchase orders, managing outstanding orders, negotiating with suppliers, and supporting the wider procurement team with daily purchasing requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience in buying or purchasing is required for this role.
• Strong organisation and prioritisation skills are essential.
• Excellent communication and negotiation abilities are expected.
• Good commercial awareness and numerical accuracy required.

Responsibilities

• Raising purchase orders from daily requisitions.
• Managing outstanding supplier orders and chasing deliveries.
• Building supplier relationships to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Resolving shortages by sourcing alternatives or coordinating with engineering.
• Processing returns and fixing delivery discrepancies.
• Collaborating with internal teams on invoice and payment queries.
• Supporting the procurement team with day-to-day purchasing needs.
• Identifying improvements to purchasing processes.

Skills

Buying experience

Organisational skills

Negotiation

Commercial awareness

Attention to detail

Excel skills

Team player

Tools

SAP

Sage

Job description

Buyer - Manufacturing Maternity Cover

Location: Bournemouth
Pay: 17.00 per hour PAYE
Contract: Temporary - maternity cover, initially until March 2027

TeamJobs are recruiting for an experienced Buyer to join a manufacturing procurement team in Bournemouth.

You'll play a key role in keeping production running smoothly, ensuring components arrive on time, building supplier relationships and resolving purchasing queries.

What you'll be doing:

• Raising purchase orders from daily requisitions.
• Managing outstanding supplier orders, chasing deliveries and ensuring components arrive when required.
• Building strong supplier relationships and identifying opportunities to reduce costs.
• Resolving shortages by sourcing alternative suppliers or working with engineering on suitable solutions.
• Processing returns for rejected goods and resolving delivery discrepancies.
• Working with internal teams to resolve invoice and payment queries.
• Supporting the wider procurement team with day-to-day purchasing requirements.
• Identifying ways to improve purchasing processes.

What we’re looking for:

• Previous buying or purchasing experience.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a busy workload.
• Confident communication and negotiation skills.
• Good commercial awareness and an understanding of purchasing principles.
• Strong attention to detail and confidence working with numbers.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills.
• A proactive, flexible approach and the ability to work well within an established team.

Two years' procurement experience, a background in manufacturing and knowledge of SAP or Sage would be advantageous.