Purchasing Officer

Alsco Uniforms; Sydney; On-site; AUD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Alsco Uniforms is seeking a Purchasing Officer in Sydney area to manage inventory, procurement, supplier relationships, and order/shipping coordination. The role aims to reduce stockouts and improve DIFOT by continuously analyzing stock on hand, sales trends, open orders, and supplier lead times.

You will coordinate with freight providers, prepare documentation, ensure ISO9001:2015 compliance, and drive process improvements while maintaining safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• The Purchasing Officer role manages inventory, procurement, supplier relationships, order and shipping coordination, and quality assurance.
• The role focus is to reduce stock outs & improve DIFOT by maintaining inventory levels to meet demand through analyzing stock on hand, sales trends, open orders, and supplier lead times.

Responsibilities

• Inventory and Procurement: monitor stock, raise purchase orders, maintain inventory systems, report supply chain performance, resolve stock and supplier issues, inspect imported products.
• Shipping and Suppliers: manage orders through delivery, coordinate with freight and logistics providers, prepare shipping docs, support customs clearance, maintain supplier data and product specs.
• Quality, Strategy, and Safety: inspect inbound goods within 48 hours, address non-conformances, maintain ISO9001:2015 compliance, support audits, implement improvements, assist strategy execution, follow safety requirements.
• Working Arrangements and Profile: limited after-hours contact, internal and external relationships across purchasing, sales, admin, warehousing, customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and logistics; requires purchasing or equivalent experience, strong analysis, negotiation, risk management, financial, planning, process, and relationship-building skills.

Skills

Inventory management

Procurement

Negotiation

Analysis

Planning

Risk management

Relationship-building

Job description

• Location65 Williamson Road,Ingleburn, NSW, 2565,Australia
• Base Pay$75,000.00 - $85,000.00 / Year
• Job CategoryAdministration
• Employee TypeFull Time

Contact information

• Contact Phone[phone]
• Contact **************@als.net.au

Requirements

The Purchasing Officer role manages inventory, procurement, supplier relationships, order and shipping coordination, and quality assurance.

The role focus is to reduce stock outs & improve Delivery In Full On Time performance by maintaining inventory levels to meet demand by continuously analyzing stock on hand, sales trends, open orders, and supplier lead times.

• Inventory and Procurement: Responsibilities include monitoring stock, raising purchase orders, maintaining inventory systems, reporting supply chain performance, resolving stock and supplier issues, and inspecting imported products. Success measures include significant stock-out reduction, 100 percent DIFOT achievement, cost savings, maintained product quality, and accurate reporting.
• Shipping and Suppliers: The role manages orders through delivery, coordinates with freight and logistics providers, prepares shipping documentation, supports customs clearance, and maintains supplier data and product specifications. Targets include 98 percent of shipments within agreed lead times, documentation within 48 hours of dispatch, monthly DIFOT of at least 98 percent.
• Quality, Strategy, and Safety: Duties include inspecting inbound goods within 48 hours, addressing non-conformances, maintaining compliance with the Quality Management System and ISO9001:2015, supporting audits, implementing at least two process improvements annually, contributing to strategy execution, and following workplace health and safety requirements.
• Working Arrangements and Profile: The position has limited or low after-hours contact expectations, with employees encouraged to disconnect outside work hours. It involves internal and external relationships across purchasing, sales, administration, warehousing, customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and logistics stakeholders, and calls for purchasing or equivalent experience, strong analysis, negotiation, risk management, financial, planning, process, and relationship-building skills.