Purchasing Assistant
Wakefield
£28,000 - £30,000
Temporary to Permanent
Parking on site
A fantastic opportunity for a strong Administrator to join this excellent company as a Purchasing Assistant on a temporary to permanent basis with a view to start asap.
The key purpose of the Purchasing Assistant role is to:
- Ensure the efficient ordering and tracking OTIF delivery of all indirect goods and services
- Follow company procedures to ensure suppliers are appropriately qualified
- Seek quotes from suppliers, compare information received, and negotiate the best value for a defined scope of services or goods
- Support other members of the Purchasing Team as needed
- Work with the Purchasing team to achieve our Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets and seek opportunities for continuous improvement
- Management of the daily requisition process to ensure our team can order services and goods to support the business needs at the best value
- Maintain pending PO status report and work with key stakeholders to expedite any overdue deliveries
- Ensure all new suppliers follow the qualification and approval process and the data is recorded, to ensure compliance with company standards
- Assist in the Supplier Complaints system to identify trends and check the efficiency of corrective actions
- Assist the accounts department with any supplier-related invoice queries
- Work with the Purchasing Team to maintain and continually improve systems
- Issue routine system reports to analyse data and track KPI's
- Any other duties as reasonably requested from time to time
Skills and Experience Required
- Proactive and positive attitude
- Team player with good internal and external communication skills
- Experience in a high-volume transactional admin role
- Strong organisational, self-management, and multitasking abilities
- Mindset to identify problems and proactively seek solutions, independently or with support from the team
- Great computer skills and ability to learn
- Ability to make data-based decisions and recognise where matters should be escalated in a timely manner
- Responsibility for personal safety and that of others
This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Bagnall Hopkins Recruitment who is operating as an employment agency/business. Your application will be sent to one of our consultants for review, at which stage we will be in touch to discuss your details further. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours your application has not been successful.
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