Print Buyer – Edinburgh – £Highly Competitive Salary

Job Description

Position Status

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature; therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on which sector you are in, to:

• Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson –
• Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson –
• Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young –

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon as a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

Job Overview

A highly dynamic print and direct mail agency is looking for a buyer to join its team of passionate people. Candidates can either be in a role dedicated to buying or in production control/account management role which incorporates an element of buying.

Responsibilities

• Leverage your industry knowledge and networking skills to build supplier relationships & manage contracts with key suppliers to drive best possible results.
• Build sustainable relationships with suppliers to make your mark in this role and in the company as a whole.
• Collaborate internally with sales, account management and production teams.
• Negotiate to ensure all materials are purchased at the most competitive price and that delivery, quality and service delivered by suppliers meet the required standards for all projects.
• Be an organised individual, responsible for end to end associated administration.

Candidate Qualities

• Stand out from the crowd in terms of communication and interpersonal skills.
• Possess second to none negotiation skills.

Application Instructions

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To apply for this vacancy fill in the form below. The following fields are required.

• Forename (required)
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• Preferred Contact Method (required)
• Attach CV (preferred format: MS Word – .doc or .docx)

We prefer MS Word format (.doc or .docx). Being the largest recruitment company in print, packaging and paper we receive new vacancies on a daily basis. The software we use to “skill match” can read a Word document but not a PDF. You will be considered for many more positions if your CV is in Word format.

Optional Information

The following section is OPTIONAL; however if you have the time it would help tremendously in matching you to over 300 positions (the average number we have at any one time).