Purchasing Administrator

Confident Purchasing Administrator immediately available for large manufacturing company based in Stourport

Working within a busy purchasing department, you will report directly to the Purchasing Manager updating the team on any supplier issues and delays and updating the business accordingly, also supporting the team with all other general admin duties

Other duties will include:

• Expediting group orders with suppliers including Late deliveries of goods, Proactive progressing of estimated deliveries on orders not yet due, Service contracts and engineers reports
• Obtaining missing paperwork such as delivery notes or POD’s
• Deal with order acknowledgements to ensure compliance on specs, pricing issues, delivery date, specification, quantity.
• Issuing of Supplier Assessment Questionnaires for new suppliers
• Issue supplier Assessment matrix questionnaire following receipt of completed
• Validation of payment details
• Raising of orders for third parties using the pre-agreed price sheet
• Maintain and update the outstanding purchase order items for the daily production meeting
• Requesting information and raising orders from production on lead time and issuing report to business
• Reconciling delivery notes, invoices, and credit notes with the purchase order, including entering of all information of purchase system (Sage)

The right candidate would ideally
• Have strong attention to detail and excellent accuracy in their work quality
• Be self-motivation and be able to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Outgoing and confident
• Ability to be flexible and open to change
• Be able to work in a team or on own initiative
• Experience on Sage200 advantageous to updating and making amendments
• Be experienced working on an inhouse system to Inputting, updating and maintaining details

Hours of work – Monday to Thursday 7.30am to 4pm, Friday 7.30am to 1pm
Salary £25,500