Purchasing Admin

12 months

PAYE - £15ph

Billingham

A purchasing position that undertakes tasks associated with the efficient and effective processing of purchasing indents and orders supporting the purchasing team. May support low level buying activities with guidance/support from more senior purchasing colleagues.

Duties Include-

Checks orders and indents, financial authorities and purchasing compliance against agreed policies, processes and procedures.
Updates relevant I.T./purchasing/compliance systems in accordance with approved procedures and operational guidelines.
Provides internal and external reports highlighting trends and flagging any potential issues in order to monitor KPI's, verify orders and costs to support the buyers.
Liaises with Buyers to forward documents to suppliers and/or internal customers when necessary.
Provides relevant administration support as required by the purchasing team.
Supports expediting and delivery of goods to meet plant/production deadlines in collaboration with logistics, supply and operations planning (S&OP) and production teams.
May manage some low level buying activities to support more senior purchasing colleagues.
May make low level suggestions that support the optimisation of transactional purchasing processes.
Supports the implementation of system/process continuous improvement initiatives.
Supports Buyers in the collection and collation of EHS, supplier and other regulatory audit reports in relevant databases.
Supports internal and external compliance of relevant audit requirements.
To carry out any other duties which are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.