Ref: BBBH17758
Purchasing Coordinator
Purchasing Co-ordinator
Central London
Circa £28,000
Role Profile
Our client, a leading cosmetics business rapidly expanding based within Central London, are currently looking to expand their current purchasing team with the addition of a purchasing co-ordinator.
Key Responsibilities:
- Purchase packaging components and raw materials in sufficient time and quantity to meet the production schedule.
- Maintain accurate inventory status of materials on SAGE by booking deliveries, orders, and performing regular reconciliations where needed.
- Maintain material master data
- Minimise write off of stock
- Maintain sufficient stock and raise Purchase Orders
- Arrange deliveries where needed from suppliers and manufacturers
- Raise stock Purchase Orders in line with MRP recommendations, ensuring sufficient lead time for production.
- Manage the write-off of redundant and out of date materials, ensuring that they are removed from stock physically and on SAGE and are written off by Finance.
- Indirect Purchasing
- Monitor status of purchase orders and keep subcontractors, distributors and Sales Operations team informed.
Skills & Experience
- Strong work ethic, and driven personality.
- Passion to deliver excellence in material supply and to meet/exceed the needs of a rapidly growing business.
- Capable of taking charge of challenging situations and effectively influencing the outcome.
- Completer/finisher, manages the purchasing process taking responsibility for on time delivery.
- Excellent communication skills combined with the gravitas required to effectively influence and manage suppliers.
- Expertise in using MRP to drive the Purchasing Process.
- Strong data manipulation, Excel and analytical skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work autonomously as well as in a team.
- Comfortable managing complexity in a time pressured environment.
- Experience in presenting internally and externally and adapting communication style.
- A creative thinker and willing to challenge existing processes and propose solutions.
Client information
Our client is a rapidly growing cosmetics business based in central London
Remuneration
Circa £28,000
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