Back to searchProcurement Officer
Just Recruitment Group
Posted 4 days ago, valid for 7 days
Witham, Essex CM8, England
£32,000 - £38,400 per annum
Full Time
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Sonic Summary
- Just Recruitment is seeking a Procurement Manager for a growing manufacturing business in Witham.
- The ideal candidate should have at least 3 years of experience in areas such as Customer Service, Purchasing, and Supply Chain Management in a high-volume environment.
- Key responsibilities include ordering products based on sales forecasts, monitoring stock availability, and maintaining relationships with suppliers.
- The role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in IT systems, particularly Excel.
- The salary for this position is competitive, reflecting experience and qualifications.
The role is very cross-functionally oriented, the ideal candidate will have at least 3 years+ experience/ awareness and an understanding of Customer Service, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Finance, production planning, supply chain, stock management and lead times experience in a high-volume environment.
Duties include:
Use the existing systems to accurately order required volume of products using sales and forecasting available
Monitor unavailability and wastage. Contribute actively to reducing both and meeting targets
Understand importance of 100% availability, including seasonal and promotional activities and investigate all instances of non- and short- delivery to determine with the supplier an agreed plan of action to prevent recurrence
Actively develop and maintain a professional, respectful, friendly and honest relationship with all suppliers and other team members. keeping up to date with the latest developments for all suppliers
Review/approve invoice queries to allow processing in a timely manner, respond promptly to all invoicing queries, liaising with team leader on queries.
Assist with end of week/month procedures, including supplier credit claims
Co-ordinate with all departments to ensure any required information is available within necessary timescales.
Ensure that category buyers are aware of potential problems as soon as they become apparent.
Reschedule current purchase orders to meet changing demand
Liaise with various departments to produce accurate supplier requirement forecasts
Skills required:
Keen attention to detail
Highly organised, methodical and tenacious working under tight turnaround times
Good IT systems knowledge and skills including Excel and the ability to learn new software packages
A good effective and proactive communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally written and verbal
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
Analytical and problem solving skills
