Buyer

Responsibilities:
• Prepare insurance claims for materials damaged or lost in transit.
• Determine and develop appropriate sources of supply and maintain cooperative working relationships with vendors to stay current with trends and technologies, products and services.
• Resolve problems and issue arising from purchase of services, supplies and equipment with internal and external clients.
• Monitor outstanding purchase orders against estimated delivery dates and follow up on the deliveries to ensure on time delivery.
• Liaise with Accounts Department in order to settle disputed invoices.
• Source yard’s requirements of materials by obtaining quotes from suitable suppliers, negotiate with them and create computerized purchase orders following evaluation of quotations obtained.
• Liaise with user departments & Materials Control Section to ensure correct specifications are quoted on orders.
• Identify repetitive purchased items to the materials control section to enable creation of these items into stock.
• Follow the day-to-day operations related to own job to ensure continuity of work.