We're currently recruiting for an Assistant Buyer to join our Group Procurement Team, to provide a high quality procurement service across our business.

Location: Rushden, Northamptonshire, with flexible, hybrid working

Hours: 37.5 hours per week – flexibility on part-time hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Contract: Permanent

Responsibilities

As an Assistant Buyer, your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Managing ticket requests from the business in line with SLA's.
• Raising purchase orders for projects and site teams as requested via internal
• Systems and ensuring urgent orders are approved by the business in a timely manner.
• Benchmarking high value requisitions and recording cost saving, mitigation and lost opportunity.
• Negotiation of rates where required and supporting Kier operating units with pricing requests.

What are we looking for?

This role of Assistant Buyer is great for you if you have:

• Good organisational and administration skills.
• An ability to organise and plan effectively in a demanding environment.
• Experience of working as part of a team and working from own initiative.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Good interpersonal & communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of the business.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for use. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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