First Base Employment Limited
Purchasing Expeditor / Assistant Buyer
Business Need / Purpose of Role:
Responsible for ensuring smooth delivery of purchase orders including planning delivery schedules, keying purchase orders and monitoring order reports.
Objectives:
- Ensure optimal delivery of supplier materials.
- Working closely with other teams within the supply chain.
- Negotiate with suppliers and build strong working relationships.
- Ensuring that internal targets and deadlines are met.
- Attend production meetings.
- Managing purchase order backlog, ensuring order dates and notations are updated.
- Assisting with purchase order entries and purchase administration. Load purchase orders onto system for consignment stock and calibration requirements.
- Assist with loading and updating RFQ’s onto the system.
- Run monthly OTD reports.
- Assist Purchasing Supervisor with GRRN’s and ensure purchase notations are updated.
- Providing cover for other roles within the purchasing/planning team.
- Visit suppliers as required.
Education and/or Experience
- Highly motivated, team player with good organisation skills who can work under pressure.
- Ideally have experience within an engineering or manufacturing environment.
- Experience of planning tools i.e., ERP/MRP and vendor management, other related business management systems, Microsoft Office, Excel.
- Strong negotiation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Analytical, numerically astute with strong proven problem-solving abilities.
- A proactive approach to changing workload demands in an operational environment.
- Drive for continuous development and process improvement.
