Purchasing Assistant - Outskirts of Knaresborough

Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for a fantastic, growing business based on the outskirts of Knaresborough who require a Purchasing Assistant to join their existing purchasing and inventory team. This company offers brilliant progression for hard working individuals and really do like to develop and promote from within. This is an excellent opportunity to join a close knit company that has a family feel about it, the successful candidate will be responsible for covering all purchasing duties including key day to day procurement administrative duties. This is an excellent business for someone looking to prove themselves and develop their career. This is an great role for an individual who has ideally worked within a purchasing/procurement position and therefore understands the challenges and complexities that they will potentially face. Full training and support will be given and the company provide free parking and an excellent benefits package.

The main duties of the role will involve:-
-Working in the Purchasing team to liaise with the accounts and warehouse departments to identify and resolve purchasing and supply related queries
-Dealing with purchasers and suppliers on a day to day basis in regards to orders and any queries
-Sending purchase orders to suppliers and completing related documentation
-Resolving delivery issues raised by dealing with suppliers quickly and efficiently
-Developing and maintaining relationships with new and existing suppliers
-Finding new suppliers and setting up terms and conditions
-Putting quotes together
-Ordering stock and non-stock items and negotiating prices
-Maintaining accurate records of stock and equipment and updating the database

The ideal candidate will:-

-Be a confident communicator with a hunger to develop and learn new things
-Have worked within a similar role and will have previous experience of procurement and purchasing
-Will have previous experience of dealing with escalated queries and the ability to deliver excellent customer service at all times
-Have the ability to work under pressure and be able to prioritise workload and be able to multitask
-Have a can do attitude and will be an approachable team player
-Have excellent organisational skills and good attention to detail are also crucial

In return you will receive:-

-A market leading benefits package
-Free onsite parking
-Significant opportunities to progress within the company
-Regular salary reviews
-Pension scheme and employer contribution
-Opportunity for a company laptop and to potentially work from home when the company requires

For more information please contact Gemma Watmough

Sewell Wallis acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. As part of our recruitment process, we will retain your CV for a period of one year to enable us to consider you for future roles. After this period your CV will be deleted.