Buyer

We are helping one of the nations most established household names find a printing professional with direct mail experience, to play a key role within their procurement team.

Working on-site with this highly esteemed brand, you will leverage your industry knowledge and networking skills to build supplier relationships & managing contracts with key suppliers to drive best possible results. We are looking for someone who stands out from the crowd in terms of their communication and interpersonal skills. Building sustainable relationships with suppliers will be key to not only making your mark in this role, but in the company as a whole.

Such exemplary communication skills will also come in to hand with liaising internally, as you will be working closely with sales, product marketing, design and production teams.

Candidates negotiation skills must be second-to-none, as it will be the buyer’s duty to ensure all materials are purchased at the most competitive price and delivery, and quality & service delivered by suppliers meet the required standards for all projects. You will also be an organised individual, responsible for end to end associated administration.

This is an opportunity which cannot be missed – working for such a renowned company offers great career progression opportunities and a range of enticing bonuses.

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.