Buyer at Arnold Clark

About the role

As a Buyer for Arnold Clark, Europe’s largest independently owned car retailer, you’ll be passionate about your career and keen to take it to the next level. Reporting to the Procurement Manager, you’ll be responsible for negotiating with a diverse range of national and international suppliers, developing service level agreements and managing supplier performance.

This is an exceptional opportunity to develop and progress within a department during a period of growth. You’ll have the autonomy and scope to develop new ideas, projects, processes and sourcing opportunities.

Day-to-day duties

• Developing and implementing category strategies
• Preparing negotiation strategy to achieve the desired outcomes
• Effectively managing, negotiating and controlling spend categories
• Preparing tender documents and receiving, evaluating and making award recommendations
• Proactively managing supplier relationships to continually identify savings and business improvement opportunities
• Monitoring and investigating new products and sources of supply
• Staying up to date with market conditions

Essential skills

• Extensive negotiating experience
• Excellent influencing skills, with the ability to adapt to a variety of styles
• Proven track record of delivering results
• The ability to drive an agenda along with sound project management skills
• High levels of organisation and attention to detail
• A proactive, customer-focused approach
• Excellent computer literacy and the ability to write persuasive tender documents