Purchasing Assistant

SF Recruitment are working with a business based in Birmingham who is looking for a Purchasing Assistant to join the team
£29,000
Office based - Must have some purchasing / buying experience
Role
The main purpose of this job role is to assist Purchasing manager in the preparation, organising of all purchases, and ensuring supplies are obtained in a timely manner.
- Liaising with suppliers on a daily basis by e-mail and telephone
- Following up, monitoring outstanding orders to ensure delivery dates are met
- Maintaining weekly schedules. Updating a range of schedules externally (suppliers, customers) and internally (sales team and technical team), and reconciling against computer system
- Liaising with warehouse for goods-in bookings, maintaining paper work and system data
- Stock level monitoring
- Tracking and tracing shipments, liaising with shipping forwarders for shipping documentations and delivery bookings
- Documentations - managing and filing
- All other day to day general administration

Candidate
- Highly computer literate, able to manage data, produce documents to the highest of standards
- Excellent maths, numerate and accurate
- Very good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other software packages e.g. Microsoft Word and Photoshop
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Able to work from own initiative with a high degree of organizational skill
- Quick to learn with a Can Do attitude
- Able to work under pressure
- Ability to communicate effectively via telephone, email and face to face