Purchasing Assistant

Job Title: Purchasing Administrator

Job Purpose: Purchasing of raw materials whilst establishing and maintaining relationships with key suppliers. 

Reports to: Purchasing Coordinator

What you`ll be doing day-to-day

• Purchasing raw materials 
• Managing your categories to raise and place purchase orders, ensuring continuous supply in line with agreed inventory levels and are delivered within the required timescales.
• Supporting the Purchasing Coordinator in regularly assessing & monitoring the supplier’s performance to ensure that they meet the required expectations.
• Daily reporting of systems information to enable raw material product item requirements.
• Supporting the Purchase Ledger team with invoice queries and liaising with our suppliers to resolve and ensure no late payments
• Communicating daily between our suppliers and the Goods-In team
• Maintaining of Purchasing administrative records and data
• Supporting the business’s needs when sourcing material products/prices in collaboration with the Purchasing Coordinator.
• Supporting Production with challenges and communicating lead times to prevent any down time.
• Cross functional procurement with other departments

Although experience of purchasing is desirable it isn’t essential.

You’ll need to be confident in building relationships with both internal and external stakeholders and excellent at communicating both in writing and verbally.

Excellent IT skills required including Microsoft Office suite- and Excel -  with the ability to produce reports and manipulate data.
Hours:
7am - 3:30 pm Monday to Friday
£12.00 per hour