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.
