Buyer

Buyer

Location: Uxbridge

2 days a week in office.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud, and service solutions, providing clients the guidance and expertise needed to define, architect, implement and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow.

The Purchasing team endeavours to source and develop mutually beneficial relationships with new suppliers to negotiate and procure goods, materials, and services, ensuring Insight can meet and exceed operational demand. The Purchasing team are responsible for supporting the management off all inventory and supply, ensuring Insight attains the best value for goods and services acquired, by achieving specific revenue and margin goals, and minimising inventory exposure through strategic supplier selection, tendering, and cost estimating.

The Buyer will take responsibility for the procurement of software or hardware within a defined geography, ensuring that Insight EMEA purchases the right products and the right quantity at the best price. They are responsible for the purchase of goods, materials, and services to ensure that the company’s operational needs are met, considering price, quality, and delivery and to ensure continuity of supply.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the correct placement and fulfilment of purchase orders to distributors including proactive confirmation of purchase orders and obtaining tracking information for shipments, in line with audit requirements.
• Recommend major purchases of materials based on anticipated changes in prices or on unusual availability situations, balancing cash flow considerations against possible price savings.
• Liaise with the Sales and support teams, informing them of the availability and delivery dates, in order to maximise sales potential.
• Ensure that delivery dates on the system are accurate and updated where applicable.
• Backlog management; ensuring all PO’s are placed on the day of receipt and following up with distributors for ETA’s.
• Manage incoming workflow requests, ensuring all tickets are responded to within SLA’s.
• Ensure adherence to Insight’s policies and procedures in line with revenue recognition.
• Respond to e-mails requests from Sales and support regarding post supply issues within SLA’s.
• Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and keep up good communications.
• Liaise with Suppliers over pricing and supply issues.
• Manage and update aged inventory aligned with targets set by management.
• Liaise with Product Management around deal stock maximise competitive pricing.
• Ensure fill-rates are met in line with the buyer’s category targets.

This list is not exhaustive, you will be required to undertake additional responsibilities as reasonably requested by your manager.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Working towards a recognised qualification -Educated to degree level or can demonstrate equivalent work experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development -Holds relevant professional qualification (e.g. CIPS)
• Outgoing, personable, responsible, selfmotivated, and confident -A confident, outward-looking, proactive communicator
• High level of written and spoken English -The ability and willingness to develop and exploit a range of productive relationships both inside and outside the team
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel and Word) -Knowledge of identifying and implementing effective systems to
• monitor performance
• Can demonstrate experience of providing a high level of client service in a working environment -Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to negotiate, influence and generate confidence, trust and respect
• Ability to work as part of team and independently to deliver a common goal or objective and work across team boundaries to build and strengthen working relationships -Ability to develop friendly, positive and supportive working relationships with external and internal clients, and to provide them with excellent service
• Ability to build relationships, set expectations and negotiate with IT Vendors -Strong awareness of the industry's main competitors and showing a curiosity and willingness to extend the knowledge about the IT industry
• Excellent understanding of product type, product range and software as well as hardware categories -Ability to interpret and analyse business and technical reports in addition to writing and presenting information to senior stakeholders
• Experience with supply chain work -Results orientated with ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines
• Good knowledge of how to identify different license terms and ability to deal with all software categories -Self-developer – acts as a role model, invests time in their own development and encourages others

About Insight:

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Application Details:

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

A full job description will be provided upon application.