Purchasing Assistant

3 weeks ago


Stockport, United Kingdom Centrica Full time

**Purchasing Assistant (maternity cover 13 months FTC/secondment)**

**Home Based / Flexible**

**Salary - £25,779 plus benefits**

**Overview**

At Centrica Business Solutions (CBS) we provide integrated energy solutions that deliver cost efficiency, resilience and accelerate our customers’ journeys to a low carbon future. We serve business and public sector organisations, increasingly focusing on delivering decarbonisation of power, heating and transport through our portfolio of solutions. This role aligns to our UK&I business. There will be occasional travel to the Stockport office and we can offer this role as a 13 mth FTC/secondment.

**The Role**

In your new role you will raise Purchase Orders to support production / service requirements. You’ll also get involved in generating and maintaining expediting reports and work with the Senior Buyer on cost reduction programmes. Managing Kanban systems with our external and working on supplier evaluation and onboarding is key whilst maintaining systems and adhering to safety practices.

**The Person**

To be considered for this role we would like you to have some of the following experience:

- Good organisational and personal time management skills.
- Experience or exposure to a purchasing or supply chain role within a manufacturing or service environment. We will also consider those with an interest in progressing into a procurement role.
- Excellent knowledge of JDE system or similar systems for procurement such as SAP
- The ability to interrogate an MRP system / supplier schedules.
- Excellent communication skills
- Basic negotiation skills
- Excellent IT skills (MS Office and in particular Excel)
- Possession of a full UK driving licence
- CIPS or working towards would be advantageous

LI-CBS

**_ At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team - a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it_**

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