New opportunity for a skilled administrator with relevant experience to join our client in Sheffield as a Purchasing Assistant. Working closely with the procurement team to ensure the company is making cost savings, suppliers are meeting SLAs, and purchase orders are raised effectively, this is a great chance to join a successful business in a team that really makes a positive impact on commercials.
Benefits:
* Life Assurance Scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Occupational Health, health screening and wellbeing advice
* Discounted Westfield Health Plan
* Employee discounts
Main duties:
* Generate and record purchase orders using the ERP systems, creating new suppliers, and maintaining records for certification and compliance.
* Gather and analyse data in MS Excel relating to category spend, cost savings, and other weekly/monthly and ad hoc reports.
* Support the quotations process for new contracts.
* Analyse and compare quotation information.
* Raise purchase orders through the system, ensuring all details are correct and categorised accordingly.
* Enter receipts into the system to ensure invoices can be accurately matched.
* Collate and analyse purchasing spend data through the use of ERP dashboards & MS Excel, carrying out analysis to provide a breakdown by supplier and product category.
* Produce & interpret monthly commercial statistics and graphs.
* Monitor & report on Key Supplier service levels in line with the agreed SLAs.
* Assist in the collation of weekly savings sheets and be responsible for recording realised savings & updating monthly tracker reports.
To be successful in your application you will need to demonstrate:
* Substantial admin support experience, including report building and analysis using MS Excel.
* Ability to interpret reports and numerical data.
* Working to a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
* Experience in the manufacturing/engineering sector is an advantage although not essential.
* Experience in a purchasing department or exposure to a purchasing department is an advantage but is not essential.
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