Purchasing Assistant

LOCATION: YATE
PERMANENT
SALARY: £27,000 - £29,000 + Bonus
DAILY TIMES: 8.00am to 4.30pm

VACANCY - Purchasing Assistant

ESS Employment are seeking an experienced person to work for an established local company.

Duties:
• Take responsibility for day to day procurement and raising of all supplier purchase orders
• Manage, and also develop existing systems to ensure stock availability whilst meeting stock days targets using Sage 200 ERP.
• Innovate around the best way to buy from suppliers, twinning orders together or meeting certain volume requirements to gain the most competitive prices.
• Assist in the procurement of raw material stocks
• Assist in the development of stock control systems, working with logistics
• Drive a decrease in stock turn days, by stocking as efficiently as possible
• Forecast supply and demand, from ERP system data
• Assist in developing new suppliers in European countries, with an emphasis on reducing dependency on far eastern suppliers.
• Assist supplier research and ensuring compliance
• Supplier Quality Management - Ensuring NCR's are opened for internal and external non conformance, take responsibility of bring these NCR's to satisfactory result ensuring supplier improvement or deselection.

Requirements:
• 3 years minimum purchasing experience

Benefits:
• Bonus Scheme
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site gym
• On-site parking

In order to be considered for the role please email your cv at your earliest convenience to:
Rachel Hudson

ESS EMPLOYMENT LTD work with clients and candidates from a range of disciplines and place people in permanent, contract and temporary roles. Many of our candidates and clients come to us by recommendation and we are proud of our personal, professional and friendly approach to recruitment.

ESS EMPLOYMENT LTD employees benefit from our complete "Employee Discount Outlet Pack" that allows you to save on shopping, travelling and dining with family and friends. The pack offers discount benefits to you anytime, everywhere and on any online device. Discounts available at Amazon, Apple, Vue Cinemas, M&S, Boots, Cineworld, Tesco and Sainsbury are just a small selection of your choices.