Purchasing Assistant

2 weeks ago

Dunstable, United Kingdom Essential Embroidery Design Full time

**Purchasing Assistant**

We are looking for a confident, attention detailed, and accurate person to our purchasing team and work alongside our purchasing manager in assisting in the day-to-day work of our purchasing department.

This is a great opportunity for a recent graduate or school leaver to join a fast growing and expanding company that has won multiple awards over the past few years.

Your job will be to work closely alongside our purchasing manager and order the stock we need to produce and deliver our orders. You will gain the knowledge and understanding of just how important the purchasing department is for a business to function and build relationships with our key suppliers.

The key responsibilities for a Purchasing Assistant include, but are not limited to:

- Raising purchase orders accurately within the supplier cut-offs
- Ensuring purchase orders are raised whilst still adhering to the company procedures
- Chasing order confirmations
- Informing the sales team of out-of-stock products and stock availability
- Resolving any delivery discrepancies
- Maintain and monitor back orders with suppliers
- Monitoring future jobs to ensure all stock have arrived correctly in time for production to commence
- Processing faulty stock and ensuring replacements are received on time
- Liaise with suppliers to resolve any product queries from the sales team
- Oversee stock hold through the system to ensure core items are replenished and reporting to the manager.
- Answering general enquiries from other departments within the business.
- Build relationships internally as well as with suppliers

**Who we are**

Essential Embroidery Design lead the market in producing branded promotional clothing and uniforms for the promotional industry. We make the clothing and uniforms for some of the world’s most prestigious brands such as Google, Poker Stars, Amazon, and many more.

We are regarded as one of the best and most modern garment embellishment companies in the UK, using state of the art machinery and software, and we recently won the award for Bedfordshire Business of the Year 2019.

We pride ourselves in maintaining our quality edge by continually upgrading our software and machinery, and maximising the skills of our digitisers, graphic designers and dedicated workforce.

The key skills and qualities needed for the role:

- A willingness to learn with a flexible, can-do attitude, to go above and beyond in all tasks given to meet the demands of the business
- High attention to detail
- Excellent coordination and organisation skills with the ability to work under own initiative, and ability to work to deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong and compelling relationships
- An innovative and creative approach to problem solving

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £20,000.00-£23,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Dunstable: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- A-Level or equivalent (preferred)

Work Location: One location

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