Junior Excess Buyer
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Key Skills for This Role
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Your qualifications, your influence
- To be successful in the role, you must possess the following skills:
- Entry-level commercial, procurement, sales development, supply chain or customer-facing experience preferred.
- Comfortable making cold calls, sending professional outreach messages and handling rejection constructively.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to speak to procurement, supply chain, inventory and operations contacts.
- Good attention to detail and willingness to maintain clean CRM records.
- Basic Microsoft Excel / spreadsheet capability and willingness to learn electronic component data structures.
- Ability to follow account ownership rules, Sales handover rules and escalation procedures.
- High energy, curiosity, persistence and willingness to learn the electronic component distribution industry.
Preferred skills and technical familiarity
- Adding additional insight, practical experience and a growth mindset will elevate your contribution in this role:
- Exposure to electronic components, distribution, manufacturing, EMS, OEM or supply chain environments.
- Experience using CRM systems, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, company databases, trade show lists or other prospecting tools.
- Basic understanding of MPN, manufacturer, quantity, date code, packaging, lead time and excess inventory terms.
- Language skills relevant to assigned region, such as Mandarin, Hindi, Tamil, Bahasa, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese or Korean.
- Ability to learn quickly, ask good questions and improve through coaching and call feedback.
- Interest in developing into a full Excess Buyer role through training, account handling and performance progression.
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