Purchasing and Sales Administrator

Are you an experienced Purchasing Administrator looking for your next opportunity? Do you pride yourself on your excellent communications skills? Love that interaction with customers on a day to day basis and enjoy ensuring their needs are met? If so this could be the role for you.

Please note this role will be split between Purchasing and Sales Support Administration.

Information:

• Permanent - 09:00 - 17:30 PM
• 25 days annual leave +8 bank holidays
• Working with a small but helpful team that will look to support you
• £19,000
• On-site parking
• 15 minute walk away from Birmingham City Centre

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and amend safety stock and reorder levels to ensure good stock levels.
• Process Purchase orders to maintain agreed stock levels using central purchase order system
• Control stock movements (internal transfers, reclassifications)
• Assist in administration of price negotiation and terms of conditions for parts, products, packaging and supplies
• Support in managing suppliers
• Maintain supplier database
• Liaise with departments to fully understand their requirements.
• Review and resolve invoice queries with Purchase ledger, suppliers and business stakeholders.
• Provide support for stock take process as necessary
• Operate in line with the company quality system and the requirements of the ISO scheme.
• Answering inbound calls and forwarding to correct person in team
• Liaison with China office for the purchasing function
• Arranging deliveries and answering queries with UK based freight forwarder
• Weekly stock reports
• Process relevant sales orders, ensuring that all details including pricing and delivery dates are correct.
• Acknowledge all orders within agreed time.
• Process all sales orders ensuring that the price, description and delivery time are confirmed, including the preparation of all documentation and paperwork for shipping.
• Requesting and processing quotations.

Requirements:

• Purchasing Administrator experience
• Sales support experience
• Strong communication skills at all levels
• Competent using excel, word
• Ability to process sales and purchase orders
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• IT literate

Interviews are taking place next week, don't delay, apply today!

Randstad Business Support acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Business Support is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.