Purchasing Officer
Permanent Opportunity
Salary, up to £30k depending on experience
Nr Leek, Staffordshire
Excellent opportunity to join an established company and team who invest in their team and provide a great place to work.
The Role:
1. Be the principal point of contact with suppliers for all activities and communications relating to the administration and fulfilment of orders.
2. Be active in obtaining quotations for the best purchase price of raw and auxiliary materials.
3. Provide purchasing data.
4. Place purchasing orders.
5. Input data in SAP computer system.
6. Process orders.
7. Ensure orders contain all the elements required and that they are correct.
8. Follow up specific items that need to be defined during order processing.
9. Submit purchase orders to the authorised person for purchasing.
10. Collect authorisation signatures.
11. Agree the supplier delivery schedule for the delivery of raw materials and packaging.
12. Circulate internally all necessary information.
13. Collect relevant papers and send them to accounting and internal users.
14. Management of purchased materials including the purchase of ingredients and packaging.
15. Understand Kosher requirements and ensure they are met as necessary.
16. Maintain the in-house system.
17. Answer enquiries from suppliers.
18. Work closely with the accounts department to ensure fast and effective exchange of information on every aspect of supplier relationship (payment, invoicing, credit items, etc.).
19. When necessary and requested, provide assistance to the CSR (e.g., holiday cover).
Skills and Attributes Required:
* Customer account management, purchasing or sales experience.
* Excellent communication skills (telephone and email).
* Ability to influence and build strong supplier relations.
* Confident in dealing with deadlines and working under pressure.
* Strong PC skills in all Microsoft packages and SAP.
* Strong organisational skills.
* Accurate data entry and attention to detail.
* Confident in dealing with supplier and customer queries to progress the order.
The Hours:
Monday – Friday, 8am - 4pm
Benefits Include:
* Company provides 8% pension contribution but employee must pay in at least 1%.
* Automatic life assurance scheme of up to 4x annual salary.
* 25 days holidays + Bank holidays (33 days total usually).
* Christmas period, company shut down.
* Company yearly profit sharing scheme.
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