Purchasing Administrator

We are seeking a Purchasing Administrator, to manage the materials management function for our Letchworth based client.

As a strategic and crucial role within the business, the Purchasing Administrator will be responsible for vendor management, materials flow, and maintain accuracy over all goods inventories, including transactions, sub-contracting, logistics, scheduling, and shipping.

**Some of the duties of the Purchasing Administrator include: -**
- Manage MRP to provide inventory control, forecasting / scheduling, purchasing of material.
- Place orders on 3 nominated suppliers in Asia and actively manage shipping schedule,
- Document handling with file generation to input Test Certificate information into the MRP system.
- Manage stock between 3rd party logistics warehouse and company locations in the UK.
- Analyse demand, sales forecast, and historical material usage to meet customer demand.
- Send and manage request for quotation to nominated steel suppliers.
- Ensure the business has a robust supply chain, capable of supporting business activities (JIT, FIFO, OTIF).
- Order progressing and provide updates on delivery schedules with key suppliers and updating system to ensure all staff have visibility on future stocks.
- Work with stakeholders in; Engineering, Manufacturing, Warehousing and Quality to achieve cost reduction.

**The successful Purchasing Administrator - will have the following skills and experience: -**
- Supply Chain, Purchasing or Materials Management expertise.
- Experience working within a manufacturing or engineering business.
- Excellent standard of excel and comfortable with data handling.
- Experience using an MRP/ERP system.

**What the company offer**:

- Ongoing training / Appraisals
- 38.75 hours per week
- Company bonus
- Pension / Eye Tests / Ride to work scheme.
- Company Events
- Great teamwork

We want to make finding a job that you will love as effortless as possible and can offer evening appointments to fit around your working life.

Essential Results Ltd specialise in Technical / Engineering / Industrial recruitment. We are experienced recruiters with extensive local and business knowledge.

We are committed to _“placing people first”._

Essential Results Ltd is an Employment Agency who provide permanent and fixed term contract services and an Employment Business who provide temporary services as defined under the Employment Agencies Act 1973. Essential Results Ltd will collect the personal details which job seekers provide to us for the purposes of providing job seekers with work-finding services. In providing this service to job seekers we may need to transfer their personal details to our client companies.

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

**Salary**: £24,000.00-£26,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee mentoring programme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

**Experience**:

- Procurement: 1 year (required)
- Purchasing: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 33440