Procurement Coordinator - Peterborough, United Kingdom - Joseph Flach and Sons Limited

Joseph Flach and Sons Limited
Joseph Flach and Sons Limited
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Peterborough, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Joseph Flach and Sons has been trading for over 140 years as a wholesaler of botanical products. We import and export products all over the world for use in food, drink, animal feed, cosmetic and herbal medicine manufacturing. Our customers range from global brands to small artisan owner managed businesses.

We are a small, tight knit, family feel business with big aspirations to continue the successful growth of JFS through new business development and product diversification.

With 17 employees based at our warehouse in Peterborough we are now looking to bring on board another Procurement Coordinator to help with procurement of stock to fulfil customer orders, sourcing of suppliers and stock holding level management and forecasting.

We are looking for an energetic, friendly, hard-working individual who enjoys working as part of a team and engaging with suppliers and enjoys variety and new challenges. It is essential that this person has real experience of working in a busy purchasing role in the food, ingredients, pharma or related sectors where batch traceability and testing of items is essential.

We pride ourselves on looking after to and listening to our staff and maintain high standards of quality and customer service.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Evaluating stock levels, monitoring consumption, lead times and possible needs so as to assist with purchasing product as needed.
  • Tracking product availability, specification and pricing with supplies.
  • Analysing stock consumption, particularly key products to maintain options of supply and optimised stock levels.
  • Finding and negotiating best buy prices for the quality of material needed.
  • Checking, maintaining and issuing purchase orders and associated specification documents as required to maintain optimal stock levels.
  • Monitoring supplier performance, chasing purchase orders and reporting on expected receipt dates.
  • Managing goods in, batch weight and other attributes

Qualifications
Reasonable qualifications in Maths and English are essential.


Skills and Abilities

  • Commercial awareness, understanding costs, profit and good business
  • Meticulous and accurate/thorough and careful
  • Good communicator with a professional and considered attitude:
  • Flexible, dedicated, committed and hard working
  • Kind to others with good sense of humour
  • Able to work on one's own but completely a team player who really wants to belong and feel their contribution is recognised and appreciated
  • Have great people skills with a positive outlook
  • Strong ethics and supportive of our organisational culture
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Customer Service: Is polite but confident when dealing with stakeholders

  • Looks to solve problems with attention to JFS needs
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Communication: Effective communication. Contributes at team meetings positively. Demonstrates essential interpersonal skills i.e. listening, clarity, well structured and articulate. Confident telephone manner
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Personal Organisation: Has strong time management skills and able to multitask. Prioritises workload appropriately and can remain calm and focused even in a very hectic environment. Plans ahead and manages diverse workload. Has high productivity levels and personal motivation.


Knowledge

  • Expertise in basic commercial practices, purchase ordering systems, stock management systems, batch control and general distribution activities
  • Use of Sage 200 advantageous

Experience

  • Several year's demonstrable experience in Quality or procurement or similar
  • Confident use of IT for business purposes, including MS Office products in particular Word, Excel and Outlook
  • Experience in a food business desirable

Core KPIs

  • Stock levels, minimum SKUs out of stock, price increase control, minimum stock write offs, minimum levels of returns

Remuneration

  • Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
  • Performance related bonus based on target and over achievement
  • Christmas bonus based on company performance
  • 5% pension
  • Private medical
  • Death in Service policy
  • Free parking
  • Early Friday finish
  • Hours 8.45am to 4.45pm

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
£24,000.00-£28,000.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Company pension
  • Life insurance
  • Onsite parking
  • Private medical
insurance


Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Quarterly bonus
  • Yearly bonus

Application question(s):

  • Do you have any knowledge of Food Safety Standards from a previous job?
  • Have you worked in a regulated industry before?

Education:


  • A-Level or equivalent (required)

Experience:

- procurement/purchasing: 2 years (required)


Work authorisation:

  • United Kingdom (required)

Ability to Commute:

  • PE27JD (required)

Work Location:
In person


Reference ID:

ACTS
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