Purchasing Administrator

SF Recruitment are working with a business based in Birmingham (B18) who is looking for a Purchasing Administrator to join the team
£26,000
Office based - Must have good admin experience

Role
The main purpose of this job role is to assist Purchasing manager in the preparation, organising of all purchases, and ensuring supplies are obtained in a timely manner.
- Liaising with suppliers on a daily basis by e-mail and telephone
- Following up, monitoring outstanding orders to ensure delivery dates are met
- Maintaining weekly schedules. Updating a range of schedules externally (suppliers, customers) and internally (sales team and technical team), and reconciling against computer system
- Liaising with warehouse for goods-in bookings, maintaining paper work and system data
- Stock level monitoring
- Tracking and tracing shipments, liaising with shipping forwarders for shipping documentations and delivery bookings
- Documentations - managing and filing
- All other day to day general administration

Candidate
- Highly computer literate, able to manage data, produce documents to the highest of standards
- Excellent maths, numerate and accurate
- Very good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other software packages e.g. Microsoft Word and Photoshop
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Able to work from own initiative with a high degree of organizational skill
- Quick to learn with a Can Do attitude
- Able to work under pressure
- Ability to communicate effectively via telephone, email and face to face