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Due to a team member approaching retirement, our client is looking for someone on a temporary to permanent basis to join their friendly, welcoming team.
The successful candidate will support the Purchasing Manager in all aspects of purchasing for the organisation. The role will involve purchasing components, fabrications and raw material from parts list prepared by the applications and engineering team as well as requisitions from team. The role will also involve creating Bills of material and expediting components in support of the operations team. This would suit someone with good IT skills who has a positive attitude and who is keen to learn.
Key Accountabilities
- Negotiate price and delivery and commercial terms with suppliers as necessary building up a working relationship and monitoring supplier risk.
- Purchase components, fabrications and raw material.
- Ensure new and existing suppliers adhere to supplier control in conjunction with Quality, Application and design teams.
- Prepare Bills of Material on QAD
- Expedite and control stock
- Roll up bills of material.
- Investigate and conclude supplier invoice queries in conjunction with accounts payable.
- Participate in planning and carrying out stock takes.
- Monitor stock.
- To particiate and contribute in modernising processes and systems of work.
- Knowledgeable with Microsoft packages and Excel.
The Person
We are looking for someone to join our small but motivated team who:-
- Ideally have some purchasing experience in an engineering background.
- Good at Excel and experience on QAD or good computer skills to quickly learn the MPR software.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written.
- Able to build and maintain positive and constructive working relationships with all internal team members at all levels such as applications teams, design, purchasing, manufacturing, machining and quality and suppliers.
- Be flexible in working approach to support other sales, application, and design team members as the need arises to grow a culture of a “can do” attitude and drive continual improvement.
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