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Job Title: Senior Buyer Location: Nottingham Permanent: Full-time Salary: £40,000 Hybrid Working SF Recruitment have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Buyer for our Nottingham based client. This client is a high growth business with fantastic progression opportunities. Reporting to the Procurement Manager you will be responsible for the purchasing of Direct goods, ensuring the efficient and cost-effective sourcing. The role requires strong analytical, negotiation, and supplier management skills, as well as the ability to collaborate across multiple sites and functions. To be considered for this role it is essential you have previous procurement experience and are used to working in a fast paced environment. You will need to have excellent communication skills as it will be essential for you to build relationships with suppliers and negotiate contracts and help drive cost down. This is a really exciting new role and the client is looking for somebody who can come and hit the ground running with a confident, proactive attitude with a genuine excitement for procurement. Main Duties -Develop and implement sourcing strategies for direct procurement categories -Identify, evaluate, and select suppliers based on cost, quality, service, and sustainability -Conduct market research and benchmark pricing to optimise procurement opportunities -Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure performance -Negotiate contracts, pricing, and service agreements to drive cost savings and efficiency -Collaborate with internal teams to align procurement with business needs -Ensure timely procurement while adhering to budget and quality standards -Monitor supplier performance through KPIs and continuous improvement initiatives -Identify and mitigate supply chain risks and ensure compliance with legal, ethical, and environmental standards -Drive process improvements and support category management initiatives Essential: - Experience within a similar role - Proficient in Microsoft Excel - Understanding of key business commodities, the current market and the impact they make - Ability to use initiative, working autonomously to identify opportunities and challenge existing processes - Strong analytical skills to develop and present compelling business cases around new suppliers to stakeholders - Quick decision-making abilities to navigate procurement scenarios - Excellent communication skills for effective stakeholder management both internally and externally If you are interested in this role please get in touch today for further details

Data Engineer Location: Shropshire, South Staffordshire, West Midlands, East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey Type: Permanent, Hybrid (2 days p/week onsite) Salary: £55,000-£70,000 base D.O.E + benefits Security clearance: Must be eligible for SC clearance We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join a growing technology team delivering modern data solutions for a range of complex environments. This role involves building reliable data pipelines, integrating data from multiple sources, and supporting the development of secure, scalable data platforms. You will work closely with engineers, analysts and stakeholders to ensure data is accurately collected, transformed and made available for reporting, analytics and operational use. Key responsibilities Design and implement secure and reliable data integration solutions Build and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation and curation Work with data from multiple systems and platforms Monitor and support data pipelines to ensure reliability and performance Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to gather requirements Investigate and resolve issues affecting data services Contribute to team knowledge sharing and engineering best practices Work within Agile delivery teams Skills and experience Strong SQL skills and experience with data modelling Experience building ETL or ELT data pipelines Experience working with databases or data platforms such as Oracle or Cloudera Experience with ETL tools such as Talend, Pentaho DI, Informatica, AWS Glue or SAS Experience with programming or scripting languages such as Python or Bash Familiarity with cloud platforms, ideally AWS Understanding of data integration, transformation and orchestration Experience using version control such as Git Security clearance Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be eligible for Security Check (SC) clearance. Applicants will normally need to have lived continuously in the UK for the past five years and hold the right to work in the UK. So, if you're an experienced data engineer with the desired skills and feel this could be the role for you, please apply now to be considered!

Purchase Ledger Clerk required for a new and exciting permanent opportunity working for a well established business based in Perry Barr with an immediate start. You will be working as part of a small friendly team and be responsible for processing up to 600 invoices on a monthly basis from start to finish. Your daily duties will include matching batching and coding invoices, ensuring all invoices have corresponding purchase orders, processing payments, reconciling supplier statements and resolving supplier queries. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced purchase ledger clerk looking for a new and exciting challenge. You will ideally have excellent interpersonal skills, be able to work under minimal supervision, have strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables and vlookups) and be locally based as this will be an office based role. My client is offers a pleasant working culture, 25 days holiday, on site parking, flexible working hours and some other excellent benefits so apply now.