Procurement Planner
Location: Leeming Bar
Salary: up to £26,000 per annum
Hours: Monday – Friday 37.5hrs
Type: Permanent
Imperial Recruitment Group are currently recruiting for one of our key clients based in Leeming Bar who are looking for a Procurement Planner to support their own growing team on a full time – permanent basis
Duties:
· Build good working relationships with production and process colleagues to aid day-to-day activities
· Preparing and issuing purchase orders according to company purchasing policies and procedures
· Confirm purchase orders with vendors including delivery date, quantity, etc
· Track and expedite purchase orders by working with suppliers, carriers, etc
· Maintain purchase orders within SAP so the system holds the latest details and supports operational plans
· Build good work relationship with suppliers and other cross functional team members
· Calculate packaging quantities from production plans and place orders with suppliers using MRP
· Ensure accurate parameters are reflected in SAP and regularly reviewed to achieve optimum materials inventory holding within the network
· Proactively identify slow moving and obsolete material risks, report and follow up by closely working with other functional teams
· Regularly check for potential stock-outs due to purchasing delivery delay
· Ensure material supply levels are within agreed min/max levels as to meet the daily production requirements
· To take ownership of procurement of bespoke materials.
· Challenge suppliers on invoice errors.
· React to issues on a daily basis created both internally and from suppliers
· Forecasting – based on customer and business requirements
· Attend daily operations/planning meetings, weekly production meetings.
· Provide procurement and planning support for colleagues when required
· Develop positive working relationships with internal stakeholders, particularly Planning, Customer Accounts, NPD and Technical Projects team.
· This role will be office based, however the need to occasionally take a call out of hours or on a weekend to make decisions may be required
Requirements:
· Strong organisation and communication skills
· Good computer literacy, particularly with Microsoft excel, as you will be accurately updating and maintaining documents and systems
· Ability to multitask workloads
· Good knowledge of SAP
· Excellent time management
· Excellent report writing and presentation skills
For more information, please get in touch with Imperial Recruitment Group