[ref. q0200617] Purchasing Assistant - Liverpool
Page Personnel Liverpool
About Our Client
They sell there products both to consumers and B2B. They are an established business that have been trading for more than 15 years. Their core values include, innovation, value, customer focus.
Job Description- Forecasting: Analyse supply and demand to optimize stock holding across both brands (allowing for seasonal demand patterns etc.)
- Ordering: Placing orders for products and materials based on inventory needs. Enter and maintain purchase details (supplier information and pricing) into our internal ERP system Sage 200.
- Vendor relations: Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with vendors to enable long term and mutually rewarding partnerships. Ensure suppliers are adhering to KPI's.
- Negotiating: Evaluate suppliers and negotiate payment terms.
- Research: Researching potential new suppliers with a view to achieving best prices.
- Tracking: Tracking shipments from manufacturing locations to company warehouses. In particular, arrange and track Far Eastern container shipments and address any delays/issues, keeping other internal teams notified
- Record keeping: Maintaining records of purchases, shipments, and supplier contracts
- Quality inspection: Inspecting products received for quality and quantity. Liaise with colleagues to address any reoccurring product issues, addressing issues with suppliers, creating and implementing improvement plans
- Administrative tasks and other duties as required: Performing other administrative activities, as required, to help the business run efficiently
- Good understanding of supply chain procedures.
- Active participation in inventory audits.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Computer literacy in particular word and excel.
- Good communication and negotiation abilities.
- A working knowledge of Sage 200 would be an advantage but not essential.
- Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese would be an advantage but not essential.
What's on Offer
Progression Opportunities
Free Parking & Close to transport links
Progression Opportunities- 5 hours a week , 08:45 - 5:15
25 days + bank holidaysPurchasing Assistant
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Perfect RecruitmentPrescot, 9 mi from Liverpool
Job Title: Accounts Assistant / Purchasing Assistant
Location: Knowsley, Merseyside
Type: Full Time / Permanent
Salary: £25,000
Benefits:
• Opportunities for career progression and personal development
Client Information: We’re working...
Michael PageEllesmere Port, 14 mi from Liverpool
delivery of goods and materials.
• Maintaining and updating procurement records and documentation.
• Assisting in the preparation of purchase orders.
• Working closely with multiple departments to ensure stock availability.
The Successful Applicant...
Macclesfield, 36 mi from Liverpool
Purchasing / Buying Assistant
Macclesfield
£24,000 - £26,500 plus benefits
**Would be great for a Graduate**
My Client, a foodservice buying & marketing consortium based in Macclesfield, now has an excellent opportunity for a Buying Assistant...