Buyer

Job Title: Buyer

Type: Permanent

Location: Watford

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000

Due to several recent contract awards, an award winning, high-end residential builder is now looking for a Buyer to join their team at their offices near Watford. A candidate who is highly organised, clear thinking and logically minded is likely to thrive in this role.

Reporting directly to the Construction Manager, you will be expected to balance urgent, day-to-day requests alongside pro-active procurement and management of orders for large packages of materials, whilst always closely controlling costs, tracking budgets and ensuring profitability for all orders negotiated

Experience as a construction buyer and a good understanding of budgets, drawings, specifications and building materials and processes is vital. The candidate must have good IT skills and plenty of experience with spreadsheets, word processing and cloud file management systems (such as Dropbox & Google Docs). A keen attitude toward learning new skills and software, with support from other team members and independently, is expected.

In return you will be rewarded with a competitive basic salary up to £40,000 (depending on experience) which is topped up with a performance related bonus. In addition to this after passing your probation period you will have access to the company's excellent benefits scheme.

If you feel that you would be interested to know more about this role or you know of a current /ex colleague please contact Lee Howard on 01252 330 090.