Purchasing Assistant

We are looking for a Purchasing Assistant to join our company and to help the Facilities department run smoothly from our office in Bingham Nottingham. As Purchasing Assistant you will be responsible for placing orders with suppliers, controlling stock, and ensuring purchasing is carried out on best price.

**Key responsibilities**
- Take deliveries from suppliers and ensure they are logged, stored, or distributed as required.
- Place orders with suppliers.
- Ensure orders are delivered on time.
- Ensure purchasing is carried on best price.
- Chase proof of delivery reports and outstanding orders with suppliers/Carriers.
- Log and manage returns to suppliers ensuring full credits are received.
- Monitor and maintain stocking levels.
- Package and distribute orders and engineer stocking orders.
- Ensure storage areas are in kept tidy and in order.
- General administration such as maintaining spreadsheets related to purchasing documentation.
- Ensure company PPE stock levels are managed.
- Assist in maintaining the company better buying policy.
- Assist with company vehicle hire and returns.
- Monitor supply only orders.
- Updating a database for stock level changes and supplier price changes.
- Ensure requested quotations are supplied to both Service & Projects departments as well as any requested Supply only quotes are turned around in a timely manner.
- Hire & Monitor site plant for both service & projects departments.
- Other purchasing duties as directed.

**Experience, knowledge, and skills required**
- Experience using Microsoft office (Word, excel) - Essential
- Full UK driving licence - Desirable
- Excellent organisation skills - Essential
- Customer focused attitude - Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Essential
- Ability to work as part of a team - Essential
- Ability to undertake manual handling - Essential

**Benefits**
- Additional days holiday for each full year of service (up to 25 days plus bank holidays).
- Discounted travel to work schemes - Tram2Work and Robin Hood bus and tram scheme.
- Great public transport location and onsite parking available.
- Cycle2work scheme.
- Employee recognition scheme.
- Paid refer a friend bonus.
- Development and progression opportunities.

**Job type, days and hours of work**

Full time, permanent role working Monday - Friday 8.00am - 5.00pm with a 1-hour lunch break.

**About Global Fire and Security Systems**

Global Fire and Security Systems design, install and service fire life systems across the whole of the UK for some of the largest hotel and pub chains. We make our customers safety and protection our business. Our employees live by the company values of putting the customer first, being accountable always, working as one team, integrity by nature and safe by design.

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

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bingham, Nottinghamshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location