Procurement Manager / Buyer

DODO RECRUITMENT LTD; Market Bosworth; Vor Ort; GBP 45.000 - 55.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Holiday

Pension

Healthcare

Zusammenfassung

DODO RECRUITMENT LTD is seeking a Procurement Manager / Buyer for a construction-focused role in Market Bosworth/Leicestershire. The position emphasizes governance in spending, supplier management, and cost control, with regular yard-based time and office duties.

The candidate will report to Finance and Operations leads, ensuring compliant procurement practices and value delivery across projects.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in procurement or buying within a construction-related industry.
• Ability to build relationships with suppliers and stakeholders.
• Strong negotiation and analytical skills, with attention to cost control.

Aufgaben

• Manage requisitions to purchase orders and fulfilment.
• Raise all purchase orders on the system.
• Handle supplier PQQs and maintain supplier records.
• Maintain an approved supplier list and monitor performance.
• Be the first point of contact for procurement queries across the business.
• Negotiate best commercial rates and rebates with key suppliers.
• Maintain procurement records and documentation for audit trails.
• Report on supplier comparisons and spend across categories.
• Manage supplier performance and procurement processes.
• Order tools and PPE for field operations and stock for the yard.
• Arrange external plant and haulage for projects and assist tendering with terms.

Kenntnisse

Procurement experience

Negotiation skills

Supplier relationships

Excel & reporting

Strategic sourcing

Risk management

Ausbildung

CIPS qualification in progress

Tools

Purchase order system

Jobbeschreibung

Procurement Manager / Buyer

Construction or related industry experience required

Market Bosworth / Leicestershire area

Up to 50k per annum, depending on experience

• Holiday, Pension, Healthcare

The Role:

My industry-leading client requires a procurement officer to ensure compliance and governance in spending and controls. The role will ensure internal controls and governance are put in place around all purchasing. The successful candidate will report to the Finance Director with a dotted line to the Operations Director. As such, there is a need to spend some time at the Yard, with the expectation that the time will need to be split 50/50, with the beginning of the week at the Yard. The role should help identify improvements and efficiencies and promote best practice in procurement across the organisation.

Primary Tasks and Duties:

• Managing purchase requisition requests to purchase orders and fulfilment
• Raising all purchase orders on the system
• Dealing with all supplier PQQs
• Maintaining supplier relationships and dealing with supplier queries
• Reviewing and updating an approved supplier list for specific spend items
• Acting as the first point of contact for Procurement queries across the business
• Agreeing and finding best commercial rates and rebates with key suppliers
• Maintaining procurement records and documentation
• Reporting on supplier comparisons and supplier spend
• Managing Supplier performance and associated procurement processes
• Ordering all tools and equipment, including PPE for field ops
• Ordering and maintaining stock in the yard for use
• Hiring all external plant and haulage for projects
• Assisting the workshop in getting best rates for stock and other fabrication materials
• Assisting commercial (estimators) on project tendering and saving opportunities with particular emphasis on credit terms for larger projects
• Identifying procurement risks & escalating where needed
• Liaising with contracts team for waste and scrap tendering
• Dealing with procurement of IT through our IT provider and other general office spend

Essential Experience - Procurement Manager / Buyer

• Relevant experience in procurement or as a buyer, with a construction-related industry
• Ability to build relationships
• Strong negotiation skills
• Ability to source strategically for business needs
• Strong Excel & reporting skills
• Supply chain risk management & financial acumen
• CIPS qualification or working towards (desirable)
• Building long-term partnerships with suppliers and monitoring their performance
• Ability to cope with pressure and work to tight deadlines
• Good written and interpersonal skills and ability to challenge constructively
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload
• Confident and assertive with a self-motivated approach and flexible attitude.