Head of Buying - Tyrone
Head of Buying jobs
As a departmental lead, Head of Buying is a role involving supporting, designing and implementing market-leading strategies.
With strong commercial acumen, this person will manage relationships with suppliers and oversee revenue and cost budgeting. Effective negotiation will ensure ROI and Head of Buyers will constantly be reviewing new sourcing opportunities as well as being involved in new product development. As a profit centre in its own right, the buying department is central to an organisation’s commercial gain.
A Head of Buying will have a multi-disciplinary role, looking after short, mid and long-term projects, chairing monthly divisional operational meetings and advising the business on key developments. The individual will typically work with other areas of the business to ensure individual brand objectives, as well as group objectives, are met.
The skills required
As an experienced manager, you will require at least 5 years’ proven track record of overseeing a team. Strong negotiation skills are mandatory, with experience of strategic purchasing.
An ability to lead, influence and coach others is vital for this role as well as the capability to work in a fast-moving, demanding environment that requires strong organisational skills. Highly numerate, IT literate and analytical, you will be someone who remains calm under pressure and be an adept communicator.
Flexibility is key as well as being self-driven, honest and capable of driving team member development. It’s important you are confident to challenge accepted ways of buying, and continually strive to innovate.
You will be an experienced project manager with excellent presentation skills and able to effectively report to all parts of the business, including company directors.
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Head of Buying Jobs in County Tyrone
County Tyrone is located to the east of Lough Neagh, and is the only Northern Irish county to have borders with three others: Londonderry, Fermanagh and Armagh. It also borders Donegal and Monaghan in Eire. The county seat and most populous settlement is the relatively small town of Omagh (population 20,000), and the next largest towns are Strabane, Dungannon and Cookstown. Tyrone is Northern Ireland’s largest county be area.
Although Tyrone does not have a single dominant settlement, it does have several moderately sized towns. There is a good deal of agriculture in the county and some industry. However the picture for anyone seeking Head of Buying work is reasonably promising, as networks of populations always require a well organised supply chain to service their needs.
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