Purchasing Buyer

Purchasing Operations Buyer (Temporary)

Wynyard

Salary Competitive

Jackson Hogg Procurement division are delighted to be exclusively partnering with Venator, based in Wynyard, on the appointment of a Purchasing Operations Buyer to join their team on a full time and temporary basis, initially until 31st December 2025.

Venator are a leading global chemical company, with headquarters in Wynyard, Billingham, dedicated to the development and manufacture of titanium dioxide pigments and performance additives.

This is a transactional purchasing role supporting multiple sites and managing spend up to the value of $10,000. Spend can vary across services, goods, packaging and logistics.

Benefits include: hybrid working of 2 days per week working from home and flexible working hours.

The Role:

• Create and manage purchase orders, covering the procure-to-pay process from validated demand, typically an approved Purchase Requisition, through to invoice approval
• Validating the vendor/new vendor creation
• Creating purchase orders
• Obtaining order confirmations from vendors
• Resolving any purchasing invoice queries including vendor master data and price mismatches
• Running SAP Requests for Quotation
• Selecting vendors
• Negotiating price and payment terms
• Execute site specific purchasing projects as required

The Person / Specification:

• Experience in a purchasing/procurement related role would be advantageous but not essential
• SAP systems experience is essential for this role
• Good communication skills
• Capable of resolving problems
• Good attention to detail
• Able to start work with immediate effect

This is an urgent requirement with interviews to take place in April and an April/May start date available.

For more information, please get in touch with Gemma Yeadon - Sector Lead | Procurement at Jackson Hogg.