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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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