Purchasing Coordinator

**Role**:Purchasing Co-ordinator

**Location**: Bardon

**Salary**: £23,000 pa

**Hours**: Full time 37.5 hrs per week, Monday to Friday

Role Purpose: Working as part of the NRS Healthcare purchasing team responsible for all aspects of buying and maintaining stock levels across all regional National Care depots across the UK.

**Key Accountabilities/Outputs**:

- Liaising with the National Care depots to maintain a stock holding to be able to provide for the needs of our customers
- React to changes in customer demand
- Ensure all system data is maintained
- Obtaining and maintaining all lead times/Minimum order qty’s and minimum order values
- Use extensive product knowledge to consider and source Close Technical Equivalents
- Discontinuations - managing any surplus stock levels and move stock to other depots if required.
- Resolve delivery issues /POD’s raised by the warehouse by liaising with suppliers quickly and efficiently
- To monitor stock usage and ensure that levels are maintained so that depots do not go out of stock of products.
- Stock Transfers - The movement of products between depots to ensure stock availability and reduce new stock purchases.
- Recalls & FSN’s - Any products that the supplier has recalled and faulty items.
- Ensure that all orders are complete and that all data has transferred from ICON to SAP correctly.
- Monitoring invoices are cleared and released for payment.
- Monitor and investigate unplanned carriage charges
- Expediting - Ensuring suppliers have received orders and update all delivery dates
- Take a proactive approach to ensure best practice is maintained and built upon on a day-to-day basis.

This is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities and duties associated with this job role. The post holder is expected to undertake other duties, which may from time to time be reasonably required.

**Key Performance Indicators/Standards of Performance**:

- Service levels (stock availability) more than 97%
- Purchase orders raised on time.
- Outstanding vendor invoice queries to target.
- Product and supply chain cost savings to target
- Monitoring vendor delivery performance

**Key Competencies**:

- Numerate
- Literate
- Good interpersonal skills
- PC Literate (Excel and Word) is a must
- Excellent communication skill
- Leadership skills

**Key Decisions**:

- How to manage time available
- How to prioritise own workload
- Quantity and value of products purchased
- Level of inventory to hold

**Experience, Skills and Knowledge**:

- Experience in a purchasing team environment
- Naturally numerate
- Must be able to work as part of a team and be prepared to be flexible as deadlines and priorities sometimes change
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Must have an excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word
- Ability to communicate confidently at all levels is essential
- Knowledge of SAP beneficial but not essential

**In return we offer you the following**
- A chance to work as part of a great team doing a rewarding job
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Career progression opportunities & training
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced holiday of 33 days per year (including bank holidays) which increases with service up to 38 days per year (including bank holidays)
- Participation in our employee recognition scheme and recommend a friend scheme
- Entitlement to Employee Assistance Programme and Bike to Work scheme
- Access to exclusive employee discounts and savings in gym & wellness discounts
- To be noted:_
- This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the professional and operational managers._
- This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder._
- Under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, prospective employees are advised that they will be required to provide documentary evidence to support their right to work in the UK._

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

**Salary**: £23,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

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

Application question(s):

- Do you have a notice period to give?

**Experience**:

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

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: Bard00004157