Buying Administrator

3 days ago


Kent, United Kingdom Cobb & Jones Recruitment Limited Full time

**Buying Administrator | Mid Kent/Hybrid working | £23,000**

A successful Kent business has a great new role for an organised, numerical individual with strong communication and Excel skills to join their Buying team.

The purpose of the role isto provide all round administrative support to the buying and marketing team with initiatives to help grow the business and achieve our departmental and company objectives.

Key responsibilities:

- Price increases
- Setting up of new products and delists
- Pricing queries
- Product changes
- Promotions
- Literature
- Issuing of memos
- Keeping supplier contact details updated
- Create daily, weekly and monthly reports
- Ad hoc report requests
- New Line Stock Sold (Monthly Report)
- Potential Saving Report (Bi-Monthly Report)
- Sample Request Data (Monthly Report)
- Raising invoices
- Maintaining terms spreadsheet
- Liaising internally with relevant stakeholders
- Ensuring maximum commercial benefit at year end
- Running monthly reports to track supplier performance against forecast
- Conducting category reviews and gap analysis
- Maintaining buying file
- Assisting on cost comparison projects/supplier reviews/benchmarking exercises
- Assisting on tender requests
- Assisting with buying team to help set up sales team presentation days

**Accountabilities**:

- Working with internal buying and marketing team
- Reviewing and analysing buying and marketing communications, making improvements to improve business performance
- Building and maintaining relationships both internally and with suppliers
- Providing administrative support to the procurement and marketing teams

**Competency profile required/Person specification**:

- Strong numeracy and literacy skills
- Prior experience in an admin role
- Excellent work ethic
- Strong PC Skills( Excel, Databases)
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Good level of commercial awareness
- Ability to work towards deadlines



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