Purchasing Officer

Purchasing Officer - Hedge End - £26-£28k - Hybrid role working from home 2 days a week

We are delighted to be working with one of our long standing clients who are recruiting for a Purchasing Officer to join their established and successful team. Ideally you will have experience in a similar role, or a desire to work within a purchasing team, and be a quick learner.

There are opportunities to progress within this organisation, and they pride themselves on providing ongoing training and support as the company continues to grow.

Purchasing Officer duties:

• Work with individual departments to ensure an effective non-stock requisition process.
• Process third party service agent invoices onto the system
• Review Third Party service agent invoices and resolve queries.
• Validate all non-stock purchase requisitions, ensuring correct information & coding has been used prior to creating purchase orders in SAP.
• Understand the complete Requisition Process, automated software / purchase workflows and act as 1st point of contact for all purchase order queries in Southampton & wider division.
• Validate all key purchasing fields and ensure a high level of accuracy.
• Facilitate communication process and query resolution between Purchase Ledger and Requisitioners / Approvers in Southampton.
• Post Third Party Service Agent invoices onto the ISM system and ensure they upload into Kefron for payment.
• Liaise with third party suppliers to resolve any purchase order / invoice issues.
• Monitor Third Party Service Agent invoices and resolve any rejections.
• Provide cover for purchase order creation when other sites are closed or during staff annual leave.

Skills and experience required.

• Relevant experience in a busy office environment.
• Experience dealing with 3rd party suppliers.
• Experience of working within cross functional teams.
• Good understanding of a purchase ledger department and / or purchasing process.

Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.