Buying Assistant - Spanish speaking

New SPANISH sales admin support &
buying administration role for someone who is based in ESSEX. This is a most unusual opportunity and offers a talented administrator the chance for genuine long term growth with continuous training ( both in person and classroom based) to support your career . You will be working for a profitable and stable engineering business based in Essex (Colchester area) and the company acts as a purchasing “ hub” for manufacturers across the world searching for key manufacturing spare parts and components .

You will take enquiries directly from customers in South America, then speak to suppliers globally to locate the spare parts that the customer needs. You will then agree a supplier price, add a profit mark up, and then speak to the customer . Once the price is agreed you will speak to the logistics team to arrange delivery. This is a nice, straight forward role in a friendly market-leading business!

TITLE: SPANISH BUYER Administrator

SALARY : to £35,000 per annum

Team: Buying team

Language needed: Fluent Spanish

Flexible working : This is an office-based BUYER ADMIN role

LOCATION : Colchester in Essex (Free car parking available)

SECTOR : Manufacturing

HOURS: 8.30am-5pm ( 1pm-2pm closed for lunch )

COMPANY

Stable. profitable global manufacturing business with an excellent staff retention rate and ongoing training opportunities available to sustain career growth. This organisation has an excellent company culture that cares deeply about its staff as well as its customers and this refined attention to detail makes the company stand out from its competitors . Lovely job in a lovely company !

Customer Liaising:
Sales and sales support

• Speaking to customers who are looking for a specific piece of heavy industrial equipment or essential spare part
• Understanding what spare part is required
• Agreeing a budget
• Producing quotations and agreeing terms of business
• Liaising with the logistics team once the spare part has been located & organising and coordinating delivery .
• Liaising with the customer on a regular basis Post
• Researching new suppliers globally in order to source the required spare part
• Negotiate prices and delivery time frames with overseas suppliers
• Agree terms of business with supplier
• Liaise with the warehouse who will arrange all the logistics to the customer’s location

• Car driver essential (the office location has no public transportation links)
• Experience creating quotations is essential