Purchasing Assistant
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| Job Type | Full TimePermanent |
| Area | Bicester, UKOxford, UK |
| Sector | AdministrationEngineeringManufacturing & Production |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | Colleen Ward |
| Job Ref | VR/02506 |
| Job Views | 267 |
- Description
- Overview
My client is recruiting for a Purchasing Assistant to join the Purchasing Team and sit within Operations Department, this is a new role, due to expansion. Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Purchasing Assistant is responsible for monitoring and maintaining stock levels to ensure that they fit with current requirements and lead times. The purchasing assistant is also accountable for building relationships with suppliers, expediting updates on orders and understanding how relationships can be improved to benefit the business.
Duties and responsibilities:
Supplier Management - Build effective supplier relationships and support the senior purchaser to develop these further by assisting on supplier visits and attending exhibitions. Work with suppliers, identifying works that can be subcontracted in terms of assemblies and box builds and notifying the senior purchase of such opportunities.
Proactively expedite suppliers for updates on orders, looking at overdue orders plus those that are due in within the coming week. Identify and inform the senior purchaser of any supplier poor performance issues or any other supplier concerns Understand suppliers manufacturing processes and how they affect the business, as well as how they can be improved. Support the senior purchaser (as directed) with negotiations with new and existing suppliers; Look for and identify opportunities for cost reductions on stock
Purchasing and stock management - Monitor stock levels to avoid over stocking and ensure that they tie in with current requirements, taking lead-times and the demands of our customers into consideration; Monitor and support Kanban/floor stock as required; Monitor end of life products and obsolescence, raising any concerns. Raise purchase orders on time and in line with MRP requirements, analysing data to ensure that it reflects actual, historical, current, and future requirements; Keep lead times updated in line with actual lead times provided from suppliers; Understand how costings affect the business and ensure that standard costings accurately reflect the actual costings; Update monthly purchasing metrics and produce month-end reports to include critical parts, supplier OTIF, supplier quality and recording stock turns; Ensure the quality of supplier returns, replacement and repairs; Manage the Purchasing email inbox, working with other Purchasing team members to ensure emails and issues are allocated, resolved, and filed for reference;
Operations Planning - Monitor and update the system on a weekly basis to understand what is outstanding and taking appropriate actions and support the senior purchaser on effective operations planning
Experience:- Must have prior experience of purchasing and managing stock to avoid excess surpluses and make effective use of existing stock.
- Must have previous experience of working in a manufacturing environment.
- Understands how bill of materials and subassemblies work to build electronics-based products.
- Can effectively use an MRP system to plan the resources of manufacturing and coordinate the arrival of component materials.
- Good experience of Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook for managing a group inbox, and Excel for calculations and communicating ordering plans.
- Able to build and maintain effective supplier relationships, and support in developing these further by attending exhibitions and assisting supplier visits.
- Challenging current procedures to identify new ways of working to improve effectiveness. Also ensure that processes and internal systems are compliant.
- Can communicate information concisely to internal stakeholders regarding late delivery of components, understands the related commercial implications, and offers mitigation strategies where possible
Please note: That no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
