Buyer Administrator

Are you a confident and organised person?

Are you a skilled administrative professional with a sharp eye for detail?

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment?

If your answer to these questions is an enthusiastic “yes” then please keep reading!

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our procurement team and continue to build our amazing culture working in the office and remotely. You will be an important part of a high performing team that works closely with our salespeople, partners, and publishers (the people that make the software we sell).  

You will receive all the support you need to get up to speed and benefit from a training programme that will ensure you are successful.   You will be working collaboratively with the other members of the Climb procurement team to help support each other’s workload when required. 

Day-to-day, your key responsibilities will be:

• To build and maintain relationships and deliver excellent service by placing orders with suppliers or online, maximising on pricing and ensuring the products are dispatched timely.
• Buyers are responsible, with the Product Management team, for ensuring the accuracy of information regarding purchase costs and suppliers that is stored against products. This includes resolving pricing queries and product or supplier changes.
• Manage the returns request process, providing the bridge between customers and suppliers to resolve requests quickly and with minimum cost impact to the business.
• This position covers buying for our UK, Ireland and EMEA business areas.
• Your working hours will be Monday to Friday 9-5.30pm, 4 days will be held in the office and 1 day a week at home for training during the 3 month probation and on completion of your probation you will move to 2 days a week in the office and the rest of the week working from home.  There will also be a requirement to be flexible with hours as business needs particularly towards the end of the month.  This will be compensated accordingly.

About us

Climb Channel Solutions UK sells software to resellers both in the UK and across Europe, enabling them to provide software, services, and solutions to end users and businesses. We work with many leading global software publishers such as Microsoft, Quest Software, MindManager, Flexera, ManageEngine, and many more.

Climb Channel Solutions UK based in Devon, is part of Climb Global Solutions (NASDAQ: CLMB) with offices in the USA, Canada, Ireland, Amsterdam and the UK. We’re an enthusiastic technically led team that is at the cutting edge of new and exciting technology. We are customer-focused and pride ourselves on offering various solutions; to ensure we can solve our customers’ problems we invest time in training and personal development.  To help the team grow the business, we work hard giving everyone balance – hybrid working, a personal trainer, and an employee assistance program are just a few of the ways we do this. Having our HQ on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park in the beautiful market town of Ashburton also helps. Colleagues regularly tell us that their teams are why they love their jobs.

Benefits for you

• Paid Training
• Individual Personal Development Plans
• Salary plus commission/bonus schemes
• Sick Pay
• Holiday Pay
• Staff Referral Scheme
• Personal Trainer
• Flexible Working arrangements
• Incentives and Rewards
• Social Events/Fundraisers/Staff Parties

• Life Assurance with MetLife
• Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family
• Medicash Health Cash Plan

All companies say that they have a great culture – We are proud that this is reality – We put our people first!

About you

You will have a least five GCSE level 4/grade C (or equivalent) and above including Maths and English and ideally at least two years in an administrative position.  Experience as a buyer will be beneficial. 

Other skills we are ideally looking for:

• Must be an excellent communicator, over the phone, written and face to face.
• A self-motivated, passionate character with the ability to show initiative.
• Excellent attention to detail, efficiency, accuracy in reports and customer communication and dialogue.
• Must be adept in the use of Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Able to prioritise and re-prioritise during the day to ensure urgent tasks are completed
• The ability to choose the best course of action, escalate if required but retain ownership of the issue until resolved
• Personable and fantastic at building relationships with a desire to give the best possible service.

Our most successful people are commercially minded, focused, supportive, pragmatic and creative. Does this sound like you?

Salary £24,000 per year

Location: Office based in Ashburton/Hybrid working