Purchasing Assistant

Miller’s Recruitment; Ovingdean; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK is seeking a Purchasing Coordinator to handle purchase order requests and maintain supplier relationships. The ideal candidate will have previous purchasing experience, good computer literacy, and attention to detail. This role offers training opportunities and a supportive working environment with various employee benefits.

Benefits

Job Specific Uniform

Company Pension

Holiday allowance of 32 days per year

Regular staff treats

Qualifications

• Previous purchasing experience is preferred, but strong administrative experience will be considered.
• Good knowledge and understanding of ordering via online portals.
• A good telephone manner and ability to deal efficiently with queries.

Responsibilities

• Deal with purchase order requests in a timely manner.
• Ensure purchase prices are kept up-to-date.
• Expedite orders while maintaining supplier relationships.

Skills

Purchasing experience

Knowledge of Sage order processing

Computer literacy

Attention to detail

Tools

Excel

Siclops

Solar Vista Live

Job description

Responsibilities

• To deal with purchase order requests in a timely manner.
• To ensure purchase prices are kept up-to-date.
• Ensuring correct prices are gathered and inputted into internal systems
• To ensure parts are sourced quickly and in a cost-efficient manner.
• Expediting orders whilst maintaining supplier relationships.
• Identify any potential cost savings for the business.
• Regular contact with suppliers and internal stakeholders via telephone and email.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Previous purchasing experience is preferred, including parts sourcing, processing purchase orders, and dealing with suppliers. However strong administrative experience will be considered.
• Particular attention will be given to applicants who possess knowledge of Sage order processing, although training will be available.
• Good knowledge and understanding of ordering via online portals.
• Computer literacy is essential, ideally with a background in Excel.
• Knowledge of the Siclops and/or Solar Vista Live systems is desirable but not essential as training will be given.
• A good telephone manner and ability to deal efficiently with queries both internal and external.
• High attention to detail.

Company Information

Who are we?

Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: –

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development

Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• Holiday allowance of 32 days per year
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families
• Monday to Friday – 8 am – 5 pm

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