Purchasing / Procurement

5 months ago


Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom Jobs Butler Full time

Our client is a 5th generation family business with a solid history and firmly established roots that provide them with a wealth of experience, invaluable to both their business and to their customers. They are now recruiting for a **Purchasing Assistant** to join their growing team.

It is essential that you are proactive, organised, and have good communication skills.

**Main responsibilities and Duties**:

- Placing daily purchase orders including obtaining acknowledgements
- Work with the management to identify potential pricing & stock issues.
- Daily review and action of outstanding purchase orders
- Responsibility as part of the purchasing team to highlight and action potential stock level issues when they are identified.
- Liaising directly with suppliers to progress orders/resolve queries.
- Deal with pricing requests in a timely manner
- Help improve the flow of communication across the business.
- Dealing with product / stock queries with the various departments
- Monitor Suppliers price files.
- Dealing with purchase invoice discrepancies
- Assistance with the preparation and completion of stocktakes.
- Undertake additional duties as may be assigned from time to time.

**Key attributes/skills**:

- Self-motivated with a strong work ethic
- Confident and likeable with the ability to build positive relationships.
- A ‘team player’ with the ability to think and act independently.
- Ambitious with a desire to succeed.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Well organised and structured in approach.
- High levels of integrity and standards
- Numerate, articulate and IT literate, with competency in MS packages.

**Benefits**
- Permanent Full-time, office based (Hull)
- 37.5-hours (8.30 - 5.00) Monday - Friday (1 hour lunch break)
- 30 days holiday (inc bank holidays)
- Workplace pension scheme available
- Company bonus (discretionary)
- Starting Salary: £25,000.00-£28,000.00 per year, depending on experience

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

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Purchasing: 1 year (preferred)
- Margin Profitability: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person


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