Graduate Buyer

Balmoral Comtec, a division of Balmoral Group, provides surface and subsurface buoyancy, insulation and elastomer products and services to the global energy, defence, subsea communications and oceanographic industries. We are recruiting for a recent Graduate for a Graduate Buyer position within the Engineering Department in Aberdeen.

• Supporting the Supply Chain, the Graduate Buyer procures all project related requirements in a sound, ethical manner and in accordance with requirements to assure on time delivery to the end customer.
• Will work to a budget set by Proposals and will look to negotiate all request for quotes to ensure we procure better than budget but not to the detriment of quality.
• Purchases items consistent with price, desired quality, and requirement date.
• Expedites orders to meet on time delivery from suppliers.

• Selects suitable sources, requests bids as necessary, evaluates quotation and makes final supplier selection.
• Verifies that Bill of Materials details are correct and complete and highlight to your immediate supervisor, any discrepancies.
• Negotiates pricing, lead times and terms, conditions and recommends best commercial options ensuring budgets are met.
• Capture and report to immediate supervisor any anomalies with BOM, budget vs actual costs, lead-times etc.
• Performs order expediting activities as required.
• Liaises with Projects personnel highlighting any issues with achieving requested deliveries.
• Establish and build good working relationships with suppliers.
• Adhere to the Approved Vendor supplier procedure with regards to setting up suppliers on our approved vendor listing (AVL).
• Collate and prepare pre-tender documents to be issued to suppliers for specific tenders.
• Review and report Scorecards for allocated suppliers.
• To be trained on a variety of supply chain group activities to able to provide absence cover.

• Graduated from further education.

• Experience with in working in a purchasing department on all tendering and purchasing processes.
• Proficient at dealing with setting up suppliers on an Approved Vendor Listing.
• A good Graduate knowledge and experience of buying materials and services.

• Demonstrate an ability to effectively utilise resources, and the ability to plan, control, and take responsibility for own work.
• A good knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel packages.
• Strong communication skills.
• General office administration experience.
• Keyboard and computer systems skills.
• Computer literacy.
• Familiarity with Balmoral Group business and systems.
• Familiarity with Balmoral Group products and services.

• Good presentation, communication and people skills.
• Good teamwork.

• Follow QA System.
• Follow Purchasing Procedure.
• Follow company’s Health & Safety Procedures.
• Responsible for responding to demands of job (as required out of hours working).

Working with Balmoral, you get the opportunity to work in a fast‑paced environment that is varied and challenging - with potential for career progression.

Please note that Balmoral is unable to support employment visa sponsorship at this time.