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Corr Recruitment are currently seeking a purchasing assistant for a local company in Andover.   The perfect candidate will have previous experience.  The role is to support the sales team and to organise and maintain the efficient running of all aspects of the Purchasing Department.  
  1. To be part of the sales team taking and processing orders and dealing with customer enquiries as they arise.
  2. A minimum of twice a week to run purchasing reports and maintain all sales stock at agreed levels paying particular attention to understocks.  To place regular purchasing orders for all suppliers, reporting any purchasing issues to the Office Manager.
  3. To maintain and monitor purchasing data with the aim of keeping overstocks, understocks and back-orders all within targeted levels.
  4. To take responsibility for any purchasing issues in the absence of the Office Manager.
  5. To communicate with Customers on all out of stock items, including updating customers when supply dates change.
  6. To pass on relevant stock information to the Sales team and to maintain correct dates in the computer system (in particular with regards to production times on out of stock items).
  7. Liaise with suppliers with regards to all deliveries
  8. Getting Packing Lists from suppliers and booking all stock into the computer.
  9. To convert all back orders and schedule deliveries once stock is booked into the Warehouse.
  10. To regularly look at the re-allocation of stock with the aim of minimising short roll ends and non-standard width pieces in the warehouse
  11. To drive the identification and listing of aged stocks and overstocks and give regular updates to the Sales team to help sell them off.
 For more information please feel free to contact Ashlea Thompson or pop in to the branch in Union Street, Andover SP10 1PA

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