Buyer Planner

Computacenter (UK) Ltd • Hatfield

Hatfield

211699-en_GB

Life on the team

Field & Lifecycle Services (FLS) purpose is to delight our customers with a global, world-class Field & Lifecycle Service for Enterprise and Workplace devices. Through our field engineers, services logistic centres and global partners we ensure our customers have fully functioning technology, whilst providing them with real time visibility of their IT assets.

As a Buyer Planner you will be managing a range of partners & internal service providers across the Group (UK, France & Germany) to plan, forecast, source, purchase & repair IT hardware used to deliver the FLS services & meet our customer SLA’s (4hr, 8hr and next day). You will have responsibility of one of more customer’s stock profiles & collaborate with the CC teams in the supply chain to maintain stock availability and on time delivery of a quality item to the end user; emphasising the importance of high level of customer service required for this role.

What you’ll do

• Planning & coordinating the availability of spare parts and main devices between repair, supply, transport, engineers
• Supplier/repairer performance management (service reviews meetings, statistics analysis)
• Proactively & reactively sourcing spare parts for incident and stock requirements, replenishing central & regional warehouses in the Group
• Identifying continual service improvement opportunities
• Negotiating price and condition for all spare part purchases and repair agreements
• Repair quote management
• Identifying repairers for new business
• Invoice & warehouse query resolution

What you’ll need

The ideal candidate will come from a Purchasing and/or Logistics background with excellent negotiation and communication skills. They must be self-motivated with a high attention to detail and are able to manage a wide and time sensitive workload, bringing together multiple pieces of information from varied sources.

Why you should choose us

Open communication

Despite our size, we’re an open organisation that doesn’t hide behind hierarchy. We communicate regularly, openly and directly. For us, it’s about being straightforward, delivering and doing the right thing. Essentially, we’re people dealing with people.

Showing appreciation & having fun

Great performance is recognised, so too is the willingness to help others. Our Bravo! awards and Long Service Awards Scheme are just a taste of how we say thank you for a job well done. And when it comes to recognising success, we love to celebrate. Our company and team events are legendary!

Health & wellbeing

Our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about supporting you in feeling good and staying healthy. We offer a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions, Mental Health First Aiders, Access to Work scheme, and more.

Inclusive workplace

People work best when they bring their whole selves to work, that’s why we see and value you as the amazing individual you truly are. We take a genuine interest you that extends beyond skills, knowledge, and experience. Our Employee Impact Groups champion best practice, celebrate diversity and promote inclusion within our industry.

Pension and financial security

Thinking ahead, planning for life’s uncertainties, or simply saving for a rainy day? We offer auto-enrolment onto our pension scheme, a Sharesave/SAYE scheme and more besides.

Flexible benefits

Do you fancy a new bicycle? Want to work-out at the gym? Or do you prefer to get-away from it all? With our voluntary flexible benefits platform, ‘My Benefits’, you can. Achieve savings with our Cycle2Work, GymFlex, Travel Insurance benefits and loads more.

You belong

At Computacenter, we celebrate difference and it’s important to us that we have a working culture where you can be free to be yourself; in an environment where you feel valued, respected, and supported to reach your full potential and experience a sense of belonging. Because we know when you thrive, we thrive.

As a proud equal opportunities employer, we’re committed to ensuring that there is fair and equal access to opportunities for everyone. Your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a government scheme that helps employers attract, recruit, and retain disabled staff. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats – and guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.

Winning Together

At Computacenter, we have been writing success stories for more than 40 years! Today, we’re driving digital transformation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. We develop IT strategies, implement new technologies and manage complex infrastructures.

As a proud, independent partner to some of the world’s leading technology providers, our portfolio covers workplace, applications & data, cloud & data center, security, and networking. What’s the secret of our success? Quite simply, it’s our people.

The people who bring their unique skills and perspectives to a diverse and inclusive environment that enables them to reach their full potential.