Supply Chain Administrator

Supply Chain Administrator – Ashford

Contract Personnel are looking for an experienced Supply Chain Administrator for our reputable client that specializes in the production and distribution of frozen vegetables, fruits, and herbs.

How does the day-to-day look?

Supporting the current Admin team when there is holiday, training, or absence, for the following duties as and when needed.

• Replenishment – placing orders for product (frozen vegetables/fruit and herbs) across all group sites and for external suppliers.
• Monitor shortages of supplies across all the lines and ensuring that stock is arriving on time to meet demand.
• Liaise closely with customer services in terms of dealing with all customer enquiries.
• Monitor purchase requisitions – reviewing proposed purchase orders.
• Monitor supplier confirmations regarding delivery dates.
• Monitor purchase orders.
• Create delivery plans for all ICO (inter-company) sites.
• Close down outstanding items on live purchase orders.
• Process 3rd Party purchase orders – ie follow up and purchase requisition conversion, post the receipt when despatched, arrange return if necessary.
• Investigate and reconcile any invoice anomalies, and the approve invoice.
• PIR (purchase info records) – inputting data on SAP system regarding supplier, pricing etc.
• Maintain a shortage list on a daily basis for products that have issues with supply.
• Monitoring a report SAP on a daily basis, for any outstanding purchase orders that have not been received and receipted, and chasing up suppliers.
• Cover for Transport and Logistics planner – ie organising transport, issuing freight numbers and updating SAP to reflect this.
• Ad Hoc duties covering both departments as and when required.
• Supporting and covering certain elements of the Supply Chain Managers role (eg production planning, monitoring and rotation of slow-moving stock, and other duties

to be defined.

Compliance

• Maintain a full understanding of the legal requirements required within the department and also within the business to be able to operate with full legal compliance.
• Personally comply with all policies, procedures, and risk assessments to role and responsibilities

You will have:

• SAP experience is preferred, although training will be given.
• Computer literacy (Outlook, Word / Excel etc) is essential.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role is required.

Schedule: Monday to Friday 08:00am – 5:00pm

Salary: £30,000 - £33,000

What’s on offer?

• 21 days holiday and bank holidays
• Medicash – a whole range of benefits associated with this (discounts memberships on gyms/health clubs, access to virtual doctors, discounts on shopping, entertainment and travel and a lot more)
• EAP
• Pension
• Cycle to work Scheme

About Contract Personnel:

Contract Personnel are one of East Anglia’s longest standing, leading, independent recruitment agencies – established in 1989. Offering Temporary and Permanent recruitment solutions, they will always keep you updated about all of the current trends and key pieces of advice from the world of recruitment.