Junior Purchaser Nottingham, Nottinghamshire £18k - £20k (p.a)
Junior Purchaser / Administrator
Nottingham
£18,000 - £20,000
Overview
- Our creative client is well established, expanding and friendly. They are experts in their field who truly value their staff. They are looking for an enthusiastic Procurement Administrator / Junior Purchaser to join their team
- This varied role's main responsibilities are to support the procurement team and the general business in procurement administration tasks and company travel requirements.
- There will be opportunities to learn wider purchasing tasks and manage a select product portfolio
Responsibilities
- Purchasing of a creative IT software product portfolio in conjunction with the software product manager, ensuring that licenses are delivered accurately and in a timely manner and that issues are resolved effectively.
- Work with the supply chain to manage lead times, back orders and supply issues.
- Process requests for company travel, hotel bookings and hire cars as well as ad-hoc requests
- Processing and uploading supplier price lists to ensure that the ERP system pricing is up to date and accurate.
- Respond to product and order queries from the sales team in a timely and courteous manner, creating new product Item codes in the ERP system.
- Manage exceptions in the form of items on back order, out of date pricing etc.
- Manage the purchasing team shared email box to ensure that communication flows around the business are effective.
- Assist the Apple team with Apple specific administration support.
- Assisting the wider purchasing and product management team with cover and assistance as required.
Key Requirements
- One years' experience in a business environment with procurement responsibilities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills at all levels.
- Commercial acumen, ability to analyse data to make and justify decisions.
- IT skills with the ability to learn new systems quickly, MS Office experience is essential, working knowledge of Excel preferred.
- Ability to quickly learn and retain knowledge with regards to products and processes.
- Knowledge and interest in PC or Apple products will be beneficial
- A desire to provide great customer service.
- Hard working, structured and organized with an excellent eye for detail.
- Ability to 'think outside the box' to offer achievable solutions under pressure.
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