Description
Our Client is the global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance conveying and seasoning systems for the food industry. Our client is seeking a purchasing assistant to work alongside the buyer in their small, friendly purchasing team.
Responsibilities: Negotiating prices and discounts, placing and chasing purchase orders for all aspects of the business including:
- Raw material and components
- Electrical control gear and components
- Consumable items
- Plant and Equipment
- Motor vehicles
- Subcontract items
- Equipment for inclusion in turnkey projects
- Set up and manage service contracts; act on any breakdowns.
- Ensuring stock is maintained at an appropriate level:
- Check physical stock levels before re-ordering
- Review re-order points and re-order quantities
- Check existing allocations and orders
- Work with the stores to resolve stock discrepancies.
- Assist with stocktake and with stock reconciliations
- Progress meeting
- Attend weekly progress meeting
- Ensure that you have a full status ready for the meeting
- Keep PMs up to date when critical parts will not be on time for their project
Costs:
- Obtain competitive quotes where appropriate
- Negotiate and agree prices before placing orders
- Find alternative suppliers for third party spares
- Obtain signatures for high value orders.
Database Administration:
- Ensure that part descriptions are meaningful and accurate
- Check order acknowledgements and chase up un-acknowledged orders
- Request new consumable parts when you can see a repeated demand
- Ensure that the database is showing accurate costs
- Chase up overdue orders and clear off old balances
- Keep supplier database valid and up to date.
Quality:
- Ensure that all purchase orders contain the necessary information in a readable and correct format
- Use the correct ledger codes on purchase orders
- Work with stores and logistics to develop suitable quality checks.
- Assist with stocktake
Person specification:
- Some buying experience
- Experience in engineering buying advantage
- High attention to detail, accurate and efficient
- Strong problem solving and time management skills.
Hours
Monday - Friday 09:00 - 1700