Purchasing Administrator

Job Title: Purchasing Administrator

Salary: £24,500 – £29,750 Per Year 

Location: Burgess Hill

Job Reference: 2106JMH

Excellent company benefits which include additional holiday entitlement after the 1^st year. 40-hour week. Monday to Friday. MUST have own transport parking on site.

You will be joining our established and friendly team and need a high attention to detail, with the ability to communicate at all levels. This is an important role to the team and holds responsibility for the administration element of the purchasing department, ensuring all records are kept up to date. Previous experience within a purchasing department helpful but not essential – if there is a steady working background, strong administration and communication skills, then our client is happy to train.

1. Ensuring all purchase orders and order acknowledgements are updated and accurately checked to ensure there is no time delay to the customer’s receiving the goods.
2. Contacting suppliers daily who have not delivered within the time frame agreed on the purchase orders
3. Happy working with Microsoft products and spreadsheets.
4. The main stakeholder for all supplier returns and to send all customer returns back to the supplier
5. To administer the supplier invoice queries that are raised to the Purchasing team on a weekly basis from our Finance Team
6. Creating and setting up all product codes and images
7. Preparing all the supplier price increases once received from the supplier
8. Extracting purchasing related reports when requested by the Purchasing Manager for monthly meeting and supplier reviews
9. Review of late orders and pro-active contact with suppliers.