Materials Expeditor

Req ID:425273

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide

**Appointment Basis: Permanent**

**Location: Ramsgate, UK**

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 74,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time **Materials Expeditor in Ramsgate, UK** we’re looking for?

**Your future role**

This is an exciting opportunity to join our successful team and help us expedite all material deliveries in line with the open purchase order book and resolve supplier issues. Work with the Procurement Team to develop suppliers to ensure the required level of OTIF performance for all demand streams including Casualty and Planned material are met.

**We’ll look to you for**:

- Ensuring that materials are expedited to the schedule required to meet any operational/sales/contractual requirements.
- Ensuring that the status of all orders and deliveries is accurately maintained.
- Liaising with other departments as necessary to ensure continuity of order progress.
- Expediting rejected material.
- To understand, measure and reduce missing parts on a daily basis and work with all parties to understand the root cause of missing parts.
- Development and updating of Supplier performance measures in key areas of Supplier performance.
- Participate in regular Supplier review meetings to discuss performance, delivery schedules and day to day business issues.
- Communicate and improve any errors found to static data files.
- Conversion a P/Reqs to purchase order, and distribution to the Supply Chain.
- Control and management of free issue material.
- Development of suppliers to increase their OTIF performance.

**All about you**

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

- GCSE/or equivalent level (Grades C in Maths and English)
- 1 - 3 years’ experience in a relevant role, providing knowledge within material processes and tools.
- Knowledge of SAP,
- Excellent communication.
- Fluent English (negotiation level required)
- Project Management Basics
- Good knowledge of Excel

**On a more personal level, you will also need to be**:

- Self-motivated with a desire to learn
- Able to work independently
- A strong team player, with effective interpersonal skills.

**Things you’ll enjoy**

Join us on a life-long transformative journey - the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

- Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
- Work with new security standards for rail signalling
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
- Contribute to innovative projects
- Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
- Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
- Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive benefits (pension, life ins., medical, + anything specific to the site e.g. free on-site parking, canteen etc).

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you

**Important to note**

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 70+ countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.

At Alstom we will consider requests for flexible working on hiring. Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexible start and finish times, job sharing, or compressed hours. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need.

Alstom U.K. is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. We aim to have a welcoming and inclusive environment for