Purchasing Administrator - Bournemouth, United Kingdom - Spherea Test & Services Ltd
Description
Job Title:
Purchasing Administrator
Location:
Bournemouth
Salary:
£20k - £25k per annum DOE
Contract:
Fulltime, permanent
Spherea UK, part of the Spherea Group of Companies, is a cross-industry provider of complex test systems; providing solutions to the major Aerospace, Defence & Space Primes as well as the platform manufacturers and defence contractors.
About the role;
We require a Purchasing Administrator to support our purchasing function with all of our day-to-day buying requirements.
Material spend and volume purchasing on projects within the UK branch is at a high level, and combined with our demanding customer requirements we need an extremely organised individual in this role.
The successful incumbent will have an excellent attentionto detail, and the ability to save time, costs, and improve the overall quality of what we deliver.
Missions & Responsibilities
- Ensuring through negotiations that the best possible terms and price are achieved with suppliers
- Internal and external purchasing progress monitoring and chasing
- Assisting with new business activities including pricing, quoting & estimating
- Flowing customer, quality, and legislative requirements to suppliers (eg ISO 9001)
- New supplier research, suggestion, downselection, and onboarding
- Perform other duties and special projects as assigned
- Where possible try to take advantage of international price agreements negotiated by our Parent Company
Key Skills
- 2 to 4 years of purchasing activities (may consider a Buying/Procurement Graduate)
- Very good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (including Excel)
- Extremely IT Literate
- Use of ERP / MRP / Purchasing Database
- Analytical and organised
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Self Starter, highly motivated, able to work under pressure and under mínimal supervision
- Negotiation skills
Desirable Skills
- Purchasing of engineering components, in particular electronic and electrical
- Experience of Sage (or similar business systems, ie SAP)
- Working within the Aerospace, Defence, or other High Technology Industries
- Capture, Analysis and Presentation of supplier performance data
- Understanding of Purchasing for Projects within a manufacturing environment
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Training Budget and opportunities for advancement
- Annual Bonus
- Generous Pension Scheme (4% EE & 8% ER)
- Full Family Healthcare Plan
- Family Cash Plan
- Cycle scheme
- 27 Days Holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
- The ability to work remotely (after a qualifying period)
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