Purchasing Assistant

4 weeks ago


East Kilbride, United Kingdom Target Healthcare Limited Full time

The **Target Healthcare Group** is a niche pharmaceutical developer, manufacturer and supplier to the retail pharmacy, hospital, pharmaceutical wholesaler, and homecare markets.

Within the Group, **Target Healthcare** is the UK's leading manufacturer and supplier of unlicensed medicines and hard-to-source products. We offer an unrivalled product range, backed by expert knowledge and exceptional customer service. Throughout the UK the Group employs close to 300 including pharmacists, skilled technicians, HR, IT, procurement, warehouse, and customer services staff.

**The Role**

The Purchasing Assistant will help the buying team with the purchasing of all medicines and products as required. They will be responsible for conducting market research, maintaining relationships with vendors and suppliers and finding the best quality products at the lowest prices.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Maintain your training record and ensure training for your job role is complete as identified on the training matrix.
- Ensure any proposed changed to GDP systems have been approved via the change control procedure before any changes are made.
- Identify any deviations from approved procedures, inform QA and complete within the specified timeframe.
- Complete any CAPA assigned to you within the specified timeframe.
- Completing and correcting GDP documents as per procedure to maintain data integrity.
- Work in accordance with GDP standards.
- Supporting existing purchasing staff in the preparation of POs to a wide range of suppliers/wholesalers.
- Planning, monitoring, and maintaining suitable inventory levels.
- Negotiating with sellers to achieve best possible market prices and develop positive, long
- term relationships.
- End to end ownership of supply cycle
- from placing PO to chasing discrepancies.
- Evaluating offers/ researching new suppliers.
- Assist sales department in flow of information from purchasing
- ensuring pricing strategies remain current.
- Compiling reports on product performance/ forecasting purchasing trends and statistics.
- Report any suspicious offers from suppliers to the RP
- Have a clear understanding of the legal categories of product on the Target Wholesale WDA and the regulatory requirements for them.

**Skills and Attributes Required**
- Previous experience in a similar role
- Good analytical skills
- Excellent IT skills, with intermediate to advance Excel knowledge
- The ability to recognise future trends
- Excellent commercial awareness
- Communication skills
- Confidence and presentation skills
- Ability to make decisions under pressure
- Negotiation skills

**Hours of work for this role are Monday - Friday 09.00 - 18.00



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