Procurement Coordinator / Assistant Purchasing Manager
Up to £41000
Hours 8am - 4pm (30 mins lunch)
22 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pension, free parking, annual bonus, annual salary review, positive and happy people culture. Established Britsh company with great leadership team.
This is a brand new role for one of our favourite SME's who invent, design and manufacture specialist mechanical equipment for a wide range of interesting industry sectors. Enjoying yet another period of business growth they are looking for someone with Purchasing experience gained within a manufacturing / production environment. If you have an interest in technical or mechanical design and how things work, you'll absolutely LOVE this company.
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The Job
This busy Engineering Team purchases a wide range of products to build bespoke systems for their customers. You must have 3 years+ previous purchasing experience, ideally in a manufacturing/engineering environment.
- Communicating with suppliers regarding pricing, availability, and delivery schedules.
- Control of an annual budgets of around £1.7m
- Planning across multiple projects to make bulk purchases where able to secure improved terms and / or pricing.
- Preparing purchase orders, requesting quotes from suppliers
- Progress chase deliveries, identify problems proactively manage delivery timescales.
- Liaise with technical team if parts are unavailable and work through alternative options and contingency plans.
- Assist in maintaining inventory stock levels, ensuring that products are in stock and available.
- Preparing reports and analysis
- Negotiating prices and payment terms with suppliers on larger projects.
- Oversee the assembly schedule with correct pricing information.Ensure project costs are fed back and updated for job performance analysis.
- Monitor projects for over spend and highlight any overspending.
- Pricing updates for the sales team to enable fast and accurate quotations for the future.
- Maintain annual price updates from suppliers and manage updates to Sage.
- Assist in controlling all expenditure within the business including building utility contracts and consumables.
- Attending and contributing to inhouse and client meetings, training and development of 2 Purchasing administrators. Its therefore vital you are a strong communicator with good rapport building skills
Useful experience:
- It is essential you've had previous purchasing experience which includes authority to sign off on order values over £50,000
- Well organised with good planning skills and commercial awareness.
- It would be useful to be able to interpret basic technical drawings and have an interest and experience in technical equipment.
- Good IT skills - Microsoft Office (Excel and Word)
- Good 'people skills' are required and should be able to fit into our existing team.]#
- Excellent communication skills, and the ability to identify problems and work together with the right people to find solutions.