Bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Wellbeing Scheme, provided through Health Shield, giving every colleague – and their dependents – unlimited access to GPs and counselling, as well as cash back on a wide range of health and wellbeing treatment
• Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
• 24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support – access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
• Online savings- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more!
• This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who enjoys working with people and developing their skills on real projects. This role will be involved in diverse business issues as it supports our commercial teams to identify risks, develop commercial proposals and business solutions, manage new business contracts and analyse business cases. It creates an opportunity for somebody to develop against the Level 4 Sales Executive Apprenticeship Standard, with a view to joining the team on a permanent basis.
The Apprentice Assessment Day will take place during the week commencing 12th May 2025 and will be held in person.
As a Commercial Buyer Apprentice, your role will support the Commercial team and will have responsibility for the following:
• Purchase material, in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Negotiate contracts, improve prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
• Assess and evaluate suppliers' performance to ensure contract compliance.
• Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery or invoice issues.
• Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities.
• Visit customers and Buyer's customers regularly.
• Provide support to other Commercial Buyers, maintaining and gaining new business.
• Develop and manage accounts, reporting and mentoring to drive daily/weekly targets.
Ability to be responsive and flexible in switching activities.
• Every year, we recycle 10 million tonnes of metals and plastics, saving 19 million tonnes of carbon from entering the Earth’s atmosphere, diverting waste from landfill and protecting resources and habitats.
It’s about being recognised by our people for the continuous work we do to do better for them:
‘I’m encouraged to keep a healthy work-life balance so that I can be performing at my best.’
‘I’ve been supported every step of the way in my career progression.’
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