Purchasing Officer Part Time - Andover, United Kingdom - Personnel Selection

Personnel Selection

Verified Company

Andover, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Part time

Description

We are seeking an experienced Purchasing Officer/Administrator to join a busy Purchaisng team to carry out a jobshare position covering 3 days a week.

If you are from a strong Adminsitratin background within a Purchasing team and you are looking for reducedhours and an excellent working environment then this could be the role for you

Key Duties:

To efficiently manage demands for quotations either from commercial team demand or new product development. To liaise with suppliers to receive accurate and timely quotes.

To provide the commercial team with prospective pricing based on either direct shipment (FOB) or UK landed costs.

In addition to the pricing, to ensure clear communication with the commercial team on the specification, packaging and MOQ's of the quote behindthe landed cost.

To provide detail such as pack sizes, CBM of pack sizes and port of shipment for direct FOB proposals.

To manage the request of samples for the commercial team where required.

The monitor the location and safe keeping of these samples and ensure that any samples being shown to customers are clean and of an expected quality standard.

To manage NPD samples and track any changes to specification as the project develops. To ensure that any changes to spec and clearly noted and dated.

To help find and manage new vendors by researching, following up leads, checking on vendor suitability with the compliance team and to work closely where required with the Shanghai office to understand potential to further develop the vendor and the likelytimescales to achieve this.

To compare cost prices received either between different vendors or based on cost increase or cost decreases applied to a range, including analysing forecast sales and historic demand across a range to demonstrate financial impact.

To monitor material commodity costs monthly and maintain a historical database used for creating trend graphs and for suppling the Product and Procurement Director with a concise material pricing document for inclusion in monthly board reports.

To monitor vendor spend and costing history both by volume of units and overall turnover, to monitor the history of pricing changes, either up or down.

To maintain vendor contract prices and vendor contracts within Infor.

To manage the pricing sheet to ensure that FIFO costing is accurately uploaded on Infor and to liaise with supply change where data changes may affect purchase orders.

Other duties as required to meet business demands

Personal Profile:

Good interpersonal skills
Commercial aptitude
Strong numeracy, excel skills.
A strong communicator, combined with IT skills (Outlook and Excel and Infor our ERP system).
Willing, enthusiastic team player with a good sense of humour
Good administration skills
Flexible approach able to cope with multiple tasks
Ideally, a proven record of working within a fastpaced buying environment

The closing date for this role is Friday 3rd March. If this role is of interest send your CV now