Buyer

Buyer Location: Belfast, BT7 3GZ Salary: Competitive Hours of Work: Monday -Thursday 8am -5.30pm, Friday 8am-4pm About the Company: Established in 1975, Portview Fit-Out has evolved from a mainstream construction company to a finely tuned, detail driven, pure fit-out management contractor that realises some of the world's most creative fit-out briefs for discerning brands. Portview Fit-Out is owned and run by the senior management team who are actively involved in every brief we complete which allows for a responsive service. Portview Fit-Out boasts a wealth of experience and capability in procurement, health and safety, quality, environmental, personnel, IT, finance, sound business management and business continuity that under pins project success time after time. As buyer you will be responsible for sourcing equipment, goods and services and managing vendors. You will oversee buying activities across multiple categories of spend, search for better deals and find more profitable suppliers. You will also liase with the Logistics Manager to ensue efficient and effective delivery of purchased goods to site. Buyer Responsibilities: Providing guidance to relevant staff in all buying matters Ensuring that legislative requirements are understood and incorporated into controls, policies and procedures Ensure that the correct procedures are followed in respect of all major buying activities Continually develop buying expertise across to support staff development, knowledge and expertise in buying activities Set up a process of review for all Contracts, Supplies and Suppliers ensuring that maximum value for money benefits are achieved through supplier rationalisation, developing an Approved Supplier list Build and develop good relationships with key suppliers to ensure best value for money and customer satisfaction with services provided Ensure that all areas of concern are identified and addressed as early as possible, with remedial action taken Engage with suppliers to ensure that value for money and economies of scale are used to where appropriate Ensuring that all invoices are checked for quantity and price before passing for payment Ensuring delivery deadlines are met. Ensure that all suppliers used for pricing are competent and capable of delivering the required quality safely to the required timescales. Check all long lead items and informing quantity surveyor immediately once project has been secured. Ensure that the level of mistakes in buying undertaken is minimised. Help to ensure we have a sufficiently large pool of suppliers for us to obtain competitive pricing where possible Ensure that the necessary training is provided to the members of the buying team to enable them to support the business wherever possible Identify and develop buying training for non-buying staff Engage with the business to identify the key buying priorities and ensure that resources are assigned accordingly Work effectively with other staff across the organisation To comply with Terms and Conditions of Service To comply with Financial Regulations Preparation of items for delivery, packing and wrapping and loading items in a safe manner. Assisting with skip changeover Stock take Covering holidays etc for others in buying and logistics. To undertake such other tasks as may be reasonably requested by the post holder's manager Buyer Requirements: Knowledge and experience of contract management and procurement activities, including: - Supply Chain Management - Contract Management - Contract Law Experienced in all levels of procurement - from low cost purchases to major contract management Development of controls, policies and procedures Qualified by experience and/or Degree level education CIPS qualified Development of controls, policies and procedures Strong written and verbal communication skills Excellent contact negotiation skills Strong people Management skills Computer literacy, knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint Motivation Desirable: Previous experiment of using procurement management systems Buyer Benefits: Competitive Salary and benefits package Contributory pension Westfield Health Laptop and mobile phone Salary sacrifice schemes Death in service benefit Income Protection Insurance Satisfying projects to work on and a great team to be part of If you think that you are suitable for this Buyer role, please apply now