Junior Buyer TTP
- Employer
- First Recruitment Services Limited
- Location
- Horsham, West Sussex
- Salary
- 20000
- Closing date
- 14 Jun 2019
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- Specialist Area
- Buyer
- Sector
- Accountancy, Advertising & Creative, Automotive, Aviation, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Charities & Not For Profit, Construction, Consultancy, Customer Service, Defence, Distribution, Education, Electronics, Energy & Utilities, Engineering, Event Management, FMCG, Food Services, Healthcare, Housing, Human Resources, Information Technology, Internet, Insurance, Legal, Leisure, Management & Executive, Manufacturing, Marketing, Media, Military, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Private sector, Production & Operations, Professional Services, Public Relations, Public Sector, Recruitment, Retail, Sales, Scientific, Secretarial & Administration, Social Services, Telecommunications, Training, Transport & Distribution, Travel & Hospitality, Utilities
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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We are recruiting for a Purchasing Assistant for our prestigious client on the outskirts of Horsham
Primarily your responsibilities will be as follows
- To support the Head of Procurement in accordance with current operational business requirements
- Provide a superior buying service, ensuring as a minimum the right goods and services are bought for the right price at the right time in a timely manner
- Conduct robust supplier expediting activity minimising risk to business delivery
- Develop a basic understanding of the supplier base and become familiar with key suppliers used to support the function
- Act as a support to the procurement team in the provision of departmental administrative duties
- Manage the translation of a variety of demand signals, including the consignment stocking replenishment models into salient supply chain requirements; ensuring that all replenishment activity meets the agreed KPIs at the optimum stocking levels
- Diligently and proactively place purchase orders for demand, based on the optimum outcome and inline with company processes
- Proficiently expedite outstanding purchase orders ensuring that delivery dates are maintained and any risks to delivery are managed proactively
- Own / monitor and proactively manage vendor consignment stocking arrangements, including monthly reconciliations and agreements on invoice values
- Accurately and promptly update a suite of reports as directed by the Head of Procurement
- Assist with pricing of new consumable opportunities, maintaining suppliers pricing records and other contractual information
- Maintain positive relationships with all customers, vendors and stakeholders
- Pro-actively identify efficient ways of working and liaise with the Head of Procurement to implement them
- Resolve any supply chain queries or issues, such as but not limited to; invoice queries / booking in issues and NCR’s
- Attend any internal or external meetings with suppliers and stakeholders as directed
- Diligently keep any meeting notes and actions updated and filed in a logical manner
- Any other tasks requested and deemed necessary by the Head of Procurement
The successful candidate needs to be Educated to degree level or equivalent HND, preferably in a business discipline; or CIPS qualified at level 3 / studying towards
First Recruitment Services are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
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