Assistant Buyer
Job Title: Assistant Buyer (12 Month FTC)
Location: Rochester, Kent
Salary: £24,500 – £28,000 depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
- Receiving requisitions and demands, negotiating with suppliers, and processing Purchase Orders and Purchase Order amendments in accordance with Procurement processes and procedures, and the requirements of the business
- Obtaining and communicating progress updates from suppliers in an effective manner, and understanding when to escalate issues to more senior members of staff
- Maintaining Supplier open order books and ensuring that correct and current data is maintained in the Oracle ERP system
- Processing supplier returns, ensuring these are actioned in a timely manner
- Supporting other members of the Procurement Team as required in their daily responsibilities
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Previous administrator/coordinator experience
- Proficient IT skills in Microsoft Excel and Outlook
- Effective communicator and able to manage stakeholder relationships
- GCSEs (A-C – 5-9) in Maths and English
Desirable:
- Manufacturing background
- HNC/HND in Business Studies or equivalent experience
- Proven experience in procurement or similar commercial environment
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Procurement Team:
Rochester is a diverse organisation with a global customer base producing commercial and defence electronics for high integrity controls, active inceptor systems, head-up displays, head-mounted displays, power and propulsion systems as well as an avionics market service centre.
We operate across the entire product lifecycle from cutting edge research to aftermarket support and have suppliers in Europe, USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan, Sri Lanka as well as across the UK.
We are experiencing significant growth with the work we are winning either critical to our national interest and security or essential to our business performance. As a result, the company is investing in our business with an extensive refurbishment of the whole site.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 31st March 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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