Buyer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Purchasing

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Buyer Skills List in Purchasing

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Buyer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Buyer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 75% of Buyer job descriptions contained procurement as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

procurement
75%
purchasing
65%
buyer
65%
buying
30%
cips
25%
supply chain
15%
purchaser
10%
engineering
10%
negotiation
10%
sourcing
10%
manufacturing
10%
purchasing coordinator
5%
analysis
5%
procurement officer
5%
procurement executive
5%
purchasing manager
5%
procurement specialist
5%
procurement manager
5%
commodity manager
5%
category buyer
5%
great yarmouth
5%
engineers
5%
sourcing specialist
5%
supply chain specialist
5%
supplier selection
5%
offshore
5%
assurance
5%
devon
5%
iso
5%
iso9001
5%
medical device
5%
paignton
5%
production
5%
quality
5%
maintaining relationships
5%
junior buyer
5%
senior buyer
5%
construction
5%
contracts
5%
subcontracts
5%
variation
5%
operations
5%
food industry
5%
food manufacturing
5%
hospitality
5%
identification
5%
transport
5%
office skills
5%
spreadsheets
5%
administration
5%
distribution
5%
insurance
5%
inventory control
5%
marine
5%
maritime
5%
parts
5%
quality control
5%
sage
5%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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