Graduate Buyer

Overview

CDE Group Ltd, H1, Kilcronagh Business Park – Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Position:
Graduate Buyer

We are seeking a detail‑oriented and proactive scheduling buyer to join our team. In this role you will manage procurement activities focusing on production scheduling and material availability, collaborating closely with suppliers, production planners, and internal stakeholders to ensure timely delivery, optimize inventory levels, and maintain alignment with production schedules.

• Deliver procurement category excellence and provide procurement expertise in sourcing, contracts, and productivity to support a resilient supply chain strategy.
• Ensure all purchase orders required for manufacturing are available when needed and delivered to the correct locations.
• Identify strategic spending and develop long‑term contractual business relationships with key strategic suppliers.
• Monitor and communicate with suppliers on on‑time in full deliveries; aim for 95% OTIF delivery with key suppliers.
• Update purchase order delivery dates promptly for real‑time reporting and maintain IFS compliance.
• Maintain supplier relationships, manage capacities and performance to help suppliers meet KPIs and targets.
• Maintain correct standard purchase part inventory in compliance with company policy, including updating min/max and reordering quantities.
• Attend relevant meetings to represent the operations scheduling team on OTD and report progress to various teams; investigate and initiate corrective actions for OTD issues, missing parts, stock‑out parts, part duplication, or other hindrances to job closure.
• Adhere to the Company Health and Safety Policy.
• Perform any other duties within reason and capability associated with this role.

• Degree‑level education in a business‑related discipline.

• Contract type:
  Full‑time
• Closing date:
  Friday 30th January 2026
• Salary:
  Starting from £0.00 yearly
• Location:
  
  Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU. We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co‑creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible, with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges.

We consistently meet our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus – our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers.

We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support. We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as a market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors.

Our purpose is to create our best world, a ton at a time. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven, and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you, and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can‑do attitude…and at times seemingly delivering the impossible.

We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. We like to have fun together – life’s too short and we spend most of it  we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.