Production Administrator or Buyer

Experienced Production Administrator or Buyer who is interested in sustainable products****

Working with our team to deliver quality sustainable branded products for client projects and campaigns. Focused on ethical and sustainable sourcing to align with our values and product offering and to meet our B Corp certification objectives.

Critical to the role is ensuring we provide our customers with value for money, creativity, excellent customer service along with an approach that mitigates risks down in the supply chain and provides fully compliant products.

This is a permanent, full-time role based at our office in South London, that said if someone right for the role was interested in a long-term contract, we would also consider that too. Happy to discuss a degree of flexibility of hours and location too.

**Who are we**:
The Sourcing Team source ethical and sustainable products across the UK, Europe and Asia for some of the UK’s leading charity and commercial organisations.

With a blend of creativity, innovation and purchasing prowess we create off-the-shelf through to fabulously creative, highly complex, made to order products that bring brands to life. We push boundaries to source ethically and sustainably, constantly searching out and pioneering new processes, materials and end of life solutions.

Our products cover promotional merchandise to retail products to products featuring tech to enable cashless giving. Promotional products support a wide range of initiatives from events to brand launches to staff recognition and welfare initiatives and retail products are for online shops mostly in the charity sector.

What also helps us stand out is holding EcoVadis Platinum award and proud to be a B Corporation, a growing movement of organisations using business as a force for good. We work with like-minded clients that care about their brand, customers, staff, the planet and its people.

We are a small company with a collaborative, can-do culture, entrepreneurial culture where all the team work closely together and all with a passion for sustainability.

**What the key responsibilities will be**:

- Working with the team on purchasing and order management and delivery
- Clear and thorough liaison with the team to work out how best to deliver each project
- Responsible for pinning down solutions and negotiating projects
- Responsible for placing and delivering orders for both our key account and new customers, ensure delivery on time and to the agreed specifications and quality expectations
- Ability to foresee and work to counter any challenges both upfront and as they arise
- Comfortable in dealing with international trading (import & export) multiple currencies, logistics and quality control inspections - if possible or ability to learn
- Liaising with International testing house to ensure correct product compliance in place
- Where new suppliers are required for more unusual projects, managing the due diligence and compliance

**What the skills and qualities are**:

- 2 - 5 years’ background in purchasing - experience in the promotional products market even better
- Team player with high attention to detail, clear communicator and strong relationship manager both internally and with the supply partners
- A proficient planner with organisational skills and ability to priorities projects
- Problems solving skills with a can-do approach in overcoming any challenges
- Excellent with order management systems, general office software and excel
- Analytical and numerically astute who is highly motivated to deliver commercial results
- Track record of developing good supplier relationships
- Good understanding of purchasing, contracts and KPIs to set expectations
- Experience of dealing with different markets, currencies, logistics
- Would be great if CIPS qualified or on the journey to qualification
- A can-do colleague to join our small friendly team, who brings professionalism and a sense of humour to the role.

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

**Salary**: £24,000.00-£27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Surfaces wiped daily, windows open where possible

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Buyer for sustainable promotional products