Buyer Associate

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa CDW Full time

Description

Job title:
Buyer Associate

Department:
Purchasing and Supply Chain

Responsible for:
Procurement of Products and Services

Key Responsibilities:

To ensure the service level to our customers is maximized through a combination of efficient purchasing, at the best possible price

  • Develop supplier relationships for a given product set: ensure suppliers always provide information related to deals and promotions and use this information to negotiate better deals. This relationship can be supported by regular meetings where necessary
  • To negotiate at any opportunity, to maximise margins, ensuring best price
  • Liaise with sales teams to communicate any issues arising with their orders
  • Clear and concise interaction with all company departments; notably the sales department
  • Ensure purchase orders are loaded correctly to enable quick payment of invoices
  • Ensure all changes to purchase orders are recorded on the system
  • Liaise with warehouse to ensure any issues can be resolved in a timely fashion
  • Provide cover for other members of the department as necessary and perform other tasks if requested from time to time by the Category Manager
  • Support less experienced members of the team in the education of best practice and

Knowledge and experience:

  • Experience of working in a procurement role, ideally within IT (Understanding of core CDW vendors, beneficial)
  • Experienced in dealing with suppliers and contractors, and negotiations to ensure best cost and quality
  • Excellent numeracy skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure
  • Highly motivated with ability to work under own initiative, making decisions to benefit the business
  • Demonstrated attention to detail, time management and organizational skills
  • Microsoft Office skills, preferably including: Excel and Word but not essential

Personal attributes:

  • Professionalism
  • Honest and hardworking
  • Self-Motivated and proactive
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Proven record of reliability, responsibility, and work ethic
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Good interpersonal skills ability to liaise with personnel at all levels and adapt style accordingly
  • Capable of multi tasking, efficiently managing time and resources
  • Ability to work to challenging deadlines
  • Have a desire for continuous development and improvement
  • A receptive, approachable individual who can provide and receive feedback in an effective, impartial manner
  • Willing to go the extra mile to ensure requirements are met and practices are followed
  • Able to identify, communicate and resolve issues that may cause risk to others or the company
  • Flexibility with working hours
  • Passionate about making positive changes and improving efficiencies
  • Must have an excellent command of the English language with strong written and verbal communication skills

Who we are:


CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organisations in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from startups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.

What you can expect from us:
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT, but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, youll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true selfand your best ideasto CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solvingand better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

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