Purchasing & Stock Coordinator

Eurofins; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurofins is seeking a Purchasing & Stock Coordinator to manage stock levels and liaise with suppliers. This full-time role involves creating purchase orders, monitoring inventory, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. Ideal candidates will have experience in purchasing and strong communication skills.

Benefits

Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Qualifications

• Experience in a purchasing or stock control role.
• Ability to prioritise tasks and manage workloads efficiently.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow procedure.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate stock levels by monitoring deliveries and liaising with suppliers.
• Create and upload purchase orders in line with Group purchasing guidelines.
• Support consumables forecasting by maintaining accurate records of supply usage.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Data entry

Teamwork

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.

Job Description

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

This is a permanent, full time position, working Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00.

As a Purchasing & Stock Coordinator, you will maintain accurate stock levels by monitoring deliveries, liaising with suppliers and coordinating shipments, while ensuring inventory costs are controlled.

• Create and upload purchases orders (POs) in line with Group purchasing guidelines, ensuring correct GCC and TCC codes are applied.
• Send complete PO details to the Financial Controller to ensure timely tracking and reporting.
• Support consumables forecasting by maintaining accurate records of supply usage and stock trends.
• Receive and receipt stock accurately, ensuring timely updates in the system.
• Maintain and manage inventory, including stock rotation, expiry dates checks, and monitoring stock levels against security.
• stock minimums.
• Liaising with Operations Manager to have accurate information of the lab workflow.
• Monitor stock levels and costs to avoid overstocking while maintaining operational availability.
• Work closely with suppliers to monitor deliveries and coordinate any delays.
• Place orders for stock, laboratory supplies and equipment as needed.
• Maintain stores to an acceptable standard, ensuring good laboratory practice (GLP) is followed.
• Support the Quality Assurance by assisting with supplier reviews and non-conformance reporting.
• Report any non-conformances or near misses using local and company QMS and Health and Safety systems.
• Always adhere to company SOP’s, ISO 15189, and Quality Management System (QMS).
• Taking responsibility for the Health and Safety of yourself and your colleagues.
• Communicating effectively with internal teams to ensure a smooth flow of work.
• Work in accordance with Eurofins values of customer focus, competence, team spirit, quality, and integrity.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience in a purchasing or stock control role.
• Good communication skills.
• Highly Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Data entry skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow procedure.
• Ability to prioritise tasks and manage workloads efficiently.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• General computer skills using the internet.
  
  

Additional Information

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes

What Happens NextOur people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.



Closing Date

We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.


Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com

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