Purchasing Assistant

3 days ago


Plymouth UK, South West England, United Kingdom Ventro - Fire Compliance Full time

As a Purchasing Assistant you will work within the purchasing team, in order to support our project managers ensure a timely delivery of stock to customer sites. You will have to be confident in negotiations and talking with a variety or suppliers to achieve the best possible price on fire safety products – we will provide full training on product knowledge


Key Skills / Responsibilities:

  • Liaising with suppliers and internal departments
  • Negotiations with suppliers
  • Conducting Supplier reviews
  • Purchasing per project based on the bill of quantities within the budget set
  • Reactive purchasing based on on-site requisitions
  • Meeting deadlines for goods to get to site
  • Resolving account queries and ordering issues
  • One-off procurement exercises for bespoke projects
  • Carrying out tender exercises annually, per spend category


The successful candidate must:

  • Have great attention to detail
  • Ideally (although not necessary) come from a buying/procurement background
  • Have excellent negotiation skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Data entry skills
  • Previous NetSuite experience is advantageous


Ventro Ltd values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.



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