Purchasing Assistant

7 months ago


Chertsey, United Kingdom Career Outlook Ltd Full time

Part-time
**Purchasing Assistant - FMCG - £25,000-£30,000 pa + Bonus + Benefits - Chertsey (KT16), Surrey**
Hybrid working: WFH and office-based (KT16)

Permanent Part-time - Monday - Friday flexible on days/hours (25-30 hours), Good railway networks/car park onsite.

**Responsibilities of the Part-time Purchasing Assistant role: Fresh Produce**
- Working closely with the Purchasing team to help support all areas
- Placing of purchase orders within agreed timescales
- Reviewing and amending forecasts regularly
- Managing short shelf life products
- Creation and issuing of weekly internal reports
- Co-ordinating collections and deliveries with suppliers and logístical partners
- Building strong relationships with vendors to address and prevent supply problems, ensuring products are delivered on time and in full.
- Work with the Stock Control team to manage delivery discrepancies in a timely manner
- System updates to prevent customs clearance queries
- Proactively monitor potential stock out lines and update internal systems
- Support purchasing with Adhoc analysis and reporting as required
- **Skills & Experience required for the Part-time Purchasing Assistant: Fresh Food Produce**
- Previous experience of purchasing with forecasting strongly preferred
- Self-motivated, methodical, and flexible in their approach whilst demonstrating attention to detail
- Ability to multitask
- Highly numerate
- Fully PC literate, including spreadsheets
- Organised and methodical with good attention to detail
- Able to prioritise work and adhere to deadlines
- Excellent communicator (written & verbal)
- Highly literate. Good level of conversational and written English
- Enjoy working as a team in a process driven environment
- Additional language advantageous

**Package**
- Salary depending on experience £25,000 - £30,000 pa
- Bonus Schemes x 2
- Pension
- Private medical insurance
- Permanent income insurance
- Life insurance
- Gym membership subsidy
- Cycle to work scheme

**About the Company**
We are an assembly of bright, talented individuals with diverse backgrounds bringing together our skills to foster entrepreneurism, creativity, fun and success.

We love food and pride ourselves on bringing some of Europe’s finest products to an ever more demanding customer. In order to continue to do this and grow our business, we are committed to investing in people and projects. We positively encourage an atmosphere of adding value to our customers, dynamism, bringing new ideas and rewarding success.

Specializing in the import and distribution of a variety of products such as dairy, world foods and continental meats, we serve a number of different markets, including the major retailers, discount brands, convenience sector and food service industry.

Our business has seen consistent growth since it was founded 20 years ago and we are proud that our customers and manufacturers have chosen to work with us. Our turnover is now just under £100m and we have more than 600 products from over 90 manufacturers across Europe. We have exciting plans for our business and believe it is set to grow still further in the coming years.



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