Purchasing Team Lead

Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting exclusively for our Halesowen client, who are seeking a Purchasing Team Lead to join their busy and successful head office. This is an integral role within the organisation, with one direct report and they are offering a highly competitive salary and package.

Hours of work are Monday to Thursday 8am -5pm, Friday 8am - 2:30pm.

Duties and tasks will include:

• Oversight of the PO raising process, supported by one other Purchaser, but also raising PO's yourself for certain suppliers and categories of spend
• Working with key suppliers to maintain lead times in Business Central
• Management of SKU's, monitoring usage and SKU criteria to add and remove SKU's as necessary. Running of Slow Moving Inventory reports
• Review of different product category ROP's and ROQ's to manage the thresholds but to also drive the purchasing demand into Purchase Requisitions
• Management of placing and draw down of purchase blanket orders and securing of material to support blanket sales orders
• Supplier quotes for special orders and for underlying purchases

Candidates welcome to apply for the role will have the following:

• Have 5+ years experience working in Purchasing roles
• Have experience of running reports from the ERP system
• Be comfortable working with manipulating/analysing data in Excel (Using Pivots etc.)
• Have a flexible approach to tasks undertaken
• Have excellent standards and good attention to detail
• Have great communication skills and work well in a team and with wider functions

Parking is available.

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