Maine Group market leaders in their industry, renowned for specialist fabrication, surface finishing and full assembly throughout the UK and Ireland. Since its founding in 1998, the business has gone from strength to strength and grown rapidly over the last 10 years, becoming a strategic supply chain partner of choice to numerous industries, particularly manufacturing and material handling. As a family founded business, we take great pride in providing a world class service delivery to our customers. We have a strong vision, and future growth plans, holding our people at the heart of our operation. We are seeking an experienced Purchasing Assistant to join our Purchasing Team. This is an exciting time to join an established growing team with professional development opportunities, coupled with a competitive salary and benefits package. Annual Salary: £27,000-£29,000 depending on experience Hours of work: 8.00am-5.00pm Monday to Thursday, 8.00am-2.00pm Friday (flexitime available) Benefits: Flexi time, where you can avail of a daily 4PM finish and a 12.30PM finish on a Friday Long Service Awards Enhanced holidays additional leave for length of service Bonus twice a year Life assurance Career development opportunities Annual social events and wellbeing initiatives Key Responsibilities: Raise purchase orders for materials and services in line with production requirements. Expediting orders, liaising with suppliers to ensure orders are received in full and on time to work toward reducing supplier lead times. Identify delivery date issues, which may affect production and escalate these to the scheduling department. Develop and maintain successful supplier relationships. Work with suppliers to resolve any order, delivery and or invoice issues. Manage multiple data bases, keeping data accurate, timely and transparent to all users of the platform. Develop and maintain successful communication between various departments across the business building strong working relationships in a muti-site environment. Assist with cost saving projects. Administration tasks associated with job role Working as part of a team to develop continuous improvement ideas. To perform the job in accordance with the companys policies and procedures. To perform any other duties as may be reasonably required to ensure successful delivery of all ongoing works within the company workstream. Essential Minimum of 1 year experience in an administrative role Professional communication skills, both verbal and written Proficient IT skills with demonstrable experience of MS Office packages especially MS Excel Strong interpersonal and organizational skills Methodical approach to problem solving, mathematical & analytical skills. Ability to evaluate tasks and propose suggestions to improve accuracy and efficiency. Ability to build strong supplier relationships. The ability to work under your own initiative, prioritising duties to fulfil reporting deadlines. Preferred Experience working in a manufacturing environment Sage 200 Accounts experience. Work experience in purchasing or similar role. Engineering background with ability to read and understand bills of materials. Maine Group is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit.