Buyer

Job Title: Buyer
Starting Salary: £34,434 opportunity to progress to £37,280 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 37.0
Location: Welwyn Garden City/Hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Resources

About the team

Herts FullStop have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Buyer/Assistant Buying to join our FMCG business specifically set up to service the education sector.

About the role

This role is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of some key categories within Herts FullStop and to make a positive impact by making them your own.

This role will be responsible for the buying of Catering, ICT, Electrical & Whiteboards, growth categories with a diverse and challenging product portfolio.

The post holder must establish and maintain effective and proper buying processes for the products within their portfolio, including Contract Management and Catalogue Production.

As a Buyer, you will work collaboratively with suppliers and with internal stakeholders to deliver strong product ranges, sales, pricing and category growth.

You will develop and implement your own category strategies.

About you

Essential:

• Previous experience working as a Buyer or an Assistant Buyer looking for progression.
• Demonstrate good commercial knowledge, expertise and understanding of purchasing are key to the success of the role
• Demonstrate good negotiating skills
• Can challenge stakeholders regarding working practices and how processes are managed.
• Ability to work autonomously & experience in using own initiative to identify areas for improvement and undertaking best practice by independently seeing implementation through to successful conclusion.
• Can demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with internal and external stakeholders
• Sound market knowledge,
• Being able to use Excel is essential.

This job role is within the Corporate Services, level CORP9 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Corporate services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Louise Bagley 01707 292431for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: w/c 20 October 2025

Benefits of working for us

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.