Purchasing Assistant

A Purchasing Assistant is required to join this amazing team for the UK’s largest manufacturer of bridal jewellery. They have been creating fine collections of handmade engagement rings, wedding rings, eternity rings and partnership jewellery at their workshop since 1967.

They are looking for an enthusiastic assistant who would like to train for a career in buying. Initially you will be processing orders and raising PO’s and dealing with people internally rather than with suppliers or clients. As you develop this will change and you will be more actively involved in the supply chain and external communications.

Key Responsibilities

• Raising Purchase Orders
• Receipting purchase orders and quality checking materials
• Material allocation to production orders
• Preparing and receiving goods for hallmarking
• Ensure inbound raw materials are scheduled to be delivered on time by monitoring and chasing outstanding orders
• Cross functional working with all departments

Skills Required

• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise own workload.
• Computer literate in MS office
• Does not accept average performance in self or others.
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Systematic
• Logical

Personal Skills

• Inclusive and open-minded approach
• Reliable with a strong work ethic
• Work within a team to achieve overall requirements
• Ability to interact with all areas of the business
• Resilient with the ability to handle continual demands and changing priorities to deliver positive results.

Despite our best efforts it is not always possible to respond to every application individually due to the high volume of responses we receive on each vacancy.

Only candidates who are short listed will be contacted for this particular role and if you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume that you have not be successful. However, we will keep your details on our database, and will contact you when other suitable positions come in.