Buyers and Procurement Officers Career Details
About this Career
New workers start at around £24,393. Normal pay is £36,166 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £74,492.
Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in Greater London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs.
Daily Tasks
- Maintains records and prepares reports as necessary.
- Works closely with merchandisers who allocate stock and develop sales forecasts.
- Supervises clerical, administrative and warehouse distribution staff, deals with recruitment and training.
- Ensures that delivered items comply with order, monitors quality of incoming goods and returns unsatisfactory or faulty items, monitors performance and makes sure targets are met.
- Looks at ways to improve supply networks, presents new ideas to senior management team.
- Helps negotiate contract with supplier and specifies details of goods or services required.
- Assesses bids from suppliers, finds suppliers and negotiates prices.
- Assesses budgetary limitations and customer requirements and decides on quantity, type, range and quality of goods or services to be bought.
- Keeps up with market trends and chooses products/services.
- Attends trade fairs, shows and demonstrations to research new product lines and suppliers, checks catalogues.
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