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New opportunity for an Analyst or administrator with strong analytical skills to join our client in Sheffield as a Purchasing Assistant. Working closely with the procurement team to produce reports on cost savings, spend, delivery information, and more, this is great chance to join a successful business in a team that really makes a positive impact on commercials.
Benefits:
- Life Assurance Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Occupational Health, health screening and wellbeing advice
- Discounted Westfield Health Plan
- Employee discounts
Main duties will be to generate and record purchase orders using the ERP systems, creating new suppliers, and maintaining records for certification and compliance. The role includes a lot of information and data gathering and analysing in MS Excel relating to category spend, cost savings and other weekly/monthly and ad hoc reports, as well as supporting the quotations process for new contracts.
- Analyse and compare quotation information
- Raise purchase orders through the system, ensuring all details are correct and categorised accordingly
- Entering receipts into the system, to ensure invoices can be accurately matched
- Collating and analysing purchasing spend data through the use of ERP dashboards & MS Excel, carrying out analysis to provide a breakdown by supplier and product category
- Producing & interpreting monthly commercial statistics and graphs using MS Excel
- Monitoring & reporting on Key Supplier service levels in line with the agreed SLA’s
- Assist in the collation of weekly savings sheets and be responsible for recording realised savings & updating monthly tracker reports
To be successful in your application you will need to be able to demonstrate:
- Substantial MS Excel experience, including report building and analysis using Pivot Tables, VLookUps and graphs
- Ability to interpret reports and numerical data
- Working to a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Experience in the manufacturing/engineering sector is an advantage although not essential.
- Experience in a purchasing department or exposure to a purchasing department is preferred
