Purchasing Assistant

Are you working in Purchasing and feeling undervalued?

This opportunity is working in South Sheffield as a Purchasing Assistant for my market leading client. Salary wise they are offering £20,000 - £24,000.

Here's what a typical day looks like:

• Using Sage, generate purchase orders based on automatic demand from the system and, wherever possible, process with Supplier via EDI
• Maintain Supplier information (products & prices)
• Progress outstanding orders with Suppliers
• Agree back order situation and source from alternative supplier if necessary
• Work closely with the Planning and Warehouse teams and ensure they have visibility of incoming deliveries.
• Maintain Supplier performance information and review monthly
• Review sales forecasts and align with minimum stock levels
• Involvement in Supplier negotiations and sourcing new suppliers.
• Assisting with the Implementation of systems and controls
• Managing perpetual stock counting

The shift patterns are 12pm - 7pm (due to online order times for supplies, but there is a lot of flexibility on working from home after 5pm)

Please contact me on or give me a call on if you're interested in hearing more.

If you don't have an up to date CV, don't worry, just send me what you have and we'll go from there.

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