Purchasing Assistant

2 weeks ago


Coleraine, United Kingdom Maine Group Full time

The Maine Group are industry market leaders and renowned for specialist fabrication, surface finishing and full assembly throughout the UK and Ireland. The business has grown rapidly over the last 10 years becoming a strategic supply chain partner to numerous industries, particularly manufacturing and materials handling.

Our approach is highly innovative and combines industry best practice with the latest technology to provide a service which is uniquely tailored to meet the needs of all our customers.

As a family founded business, we take great pride in providing a world class service delivery to our customers. We have a strong vision, and at the heart of this vision is our people. With a workforce of 250 strong, we are motivated to encourage and inspire in all that we do, empowering our teams to reach their full potential.

**Hours of work**:
8.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Thursday, 8.00am-2.00pm Friday - Flexi Time is available

**Benefits**:
All team members have access to a variety of benefits that are constantly reviewed and monitored to ensure they work for you. These include:

- Flexi Time
- Generous holiday entitlement with additional leave for Length of Service
- Life Assurance

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Expediting orders, liaising with suppliers to ensure orders are received in full and on time to work toward reducing supplier lead times.
- Identify delivery date issues, which might affect production and communicate these to the scheduling department.
- Develop and maintain successful supplier relationships. Work with suppliers to resolve any order, delivery and or invoice issues.
- Arrange collections of goods from suppliers
- Administration tasks associated with job role.

Although the above will be your key responsibilities the role may also include the following.
- Raise purchase orders for materials and services in line with production requirements.
- Maintain accurate supplier pricing
- Assist with cost saving projects.

**Essential**:

- Strong Communication Skills both verbal and written.
- 1 year or more administration experience
- Good IT skills with demonstrable experience of MS Office especially MS Excel
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- Professional and self-motivational skills
- Good problem solving, mathematical & analytical skills.
- Ability to build good supplier relationships.
- The ability to work under their own initiative and able to prioritise duties to fulfil reporting deadlines.

**Preferred**:

- Sage 200 Accounts experience.
- Work experience in purchasing or similar role.
- Engineering background with ability to read and understand bills of materials.

**_Please read the job description attached or call 02870320010 for further details._


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