Administration Assistant

Senex Recruitment; Playden; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in the UK is seeking an Administration Assistant for a permanent, full-time position in Rye, East Sussex. The successful candidate will manage essential production and logistics data, ensuring accuracy and efficiency using SAP and Excel. This role offers competitive salary, training opportunities, and a collaborative work environment, making it ideal for detail-oriented individuals with strong administrative skills.

Benefits

Competitive salary based on experience

Free on-site parking

Canteen facilities

Ongoing training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience using an ERP system such as SAP in a production or manufacturing environment.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
• Strong numeracy, literacy, and organisational skills.
• A collaborative, professional, and proactive approach to your work.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day production and logistics administration and data entry within SAP.
• Raise purchase requisitions and purchase orders in SAP.
• Book in all goods received or dispatched and maintain accurate stock records.
• Maintain spreadsheets and document links for production and QC.
• Input data from production for overtime sheets provided by shift managers.
• Update managers on purchase and delivery dates, recording all changes.
• Maintain training record files and registers for production personnel.
• Update KPI spreadsheets and ageing stock reports for management review.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Organised

ERP system experience (SAP)

Microsoft Office proficiency (Excel)

Strong numeracy skills

Strong literacy skills

Collaborative approach

Proactive work ethic

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Administration Assistant job - Rye, East Sussex
Permanent | Full-Time

Support a busy and dynamic manufacturing site in Rye by managing essential production and logistics data, maintaining ERP systems, and keeping everything running smoothly behind the scenes.

About the Administration Assistant Job

As Administration Assistant, you'll play a key role in supporting the production, logistics and quality teams through accurate data entry, record keeping, and system management. Using SAP and Excel, you'll ensure that all production movements, stock levels, and purchasing records are correctly processed and available for review.
You'll become a central link between production, planning, logistics and purchasing — helping maintain efficiency and compliance across the business. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong administrative and system skills who enjoys working methodically in a team-focused manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities at this Administration Assistant Job

• Support day-to-day production and logistics administration and data entry within SAP.
• Raise purchase requisitions and purchase orders in SAP.
• Book in all goods received or dispatched and maintain accurate stock records.
• Maintain spreadsheets and document links for production and QC.
• Input data from production for overtime sheets provided by shift managers.
• Update managers on purchase and delivery dates, recording all changes.
• Maintain training record files and registers for production personnel.
• Update KPI spreadsheets and ageing stock reports for management review.

About You and Your Experience

You’ll be a detail‑oriented and organised individual with a natural ability to manage information accurately and efficiently. A team player who enjoys supporting others and ensuring systems run as they should.

Qualifications

• Experience using an ERP system such as SAP in a production or manufacturing environment.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
• Strong numeracy, literacy, and organisational skills.
• A collaborative, professional, and proactive approach to your work.

What's on Offer

• Permanent, full-time position based in Rye, East Sussex.
• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Opportunity to work within a supportive and well‑established manufacturing team.
• Free on‑site parking and canteen facilities.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.

Apply for this Administration Assistant job Now via Senex Recruitment. If you’re looking for a role where your accuracy, reliability and ERP skills will make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today or contact Kevin McHugh at Senex Recruitment for a confidential discussion about this opportunity.