Purchasing Coordinator

Salary: £33,600 – £38,400 per year

Direct Response Employment Services are delighted to be supporting a client of ours in Frome who are actively seeking a purchasing coordinator to join the team on a permanent basis. 

As a purchasing coordinator you will be reporting to the Finance and Administration Manager and taking responsibility in coordinating purchasing activities along with taking the lead in securing locally based raw materials and services. 

Key Tasks: 

• Be the point of contact for suppliers and contractors whilst coordinating communication across the procurement team. 
• Proactively seek alternative suppliers and find best prices, quality and supply terms.
• Manage all contract and evaluation reviews with suppliers and contractors in order to assess contract performance and maximise contract re-negotiation.
• Risk assess any single suppliers to minimise/mitigate risk of failure of supply.
• Create and manage the supplier contracts on the AS400.
• Maintain the component database through the Purchase Master File to provide accurate ongoing pricing information.
• Provide accurate and regular information to the Stock Manager on quantities contracted.
• Support the Stock Manager on resolving issues with quality of stock, supply issues or non-delivery of stock items after the supply chain team have exhausted their communications.
• Be the point of contact for queries relating to purchases and stock, namely, (i) invoice queries, (ii) cost controller queries and (iii) the valuation of de-listed stock (iv) non-conformances with the technical department and suppliers
• Attend NPD project meetings and ensure purchasing meets deadlines set out in the critical path in order to meet project launch deadlines.

• Take responsibility for and oversee custom declaration submissions to the HMRC

To be considered in this role you will have previous experience within purchasing and proven negotiation skills along with excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

Ideally you will also have experience working within a manufacturing setting and have good financial and business understanding with experience of transactional management desirable but not essential. 

On offer is a salary of between £33,600 – £38,400per annum, working 40 hours per year and additional benefits on offer. 

Please apply with your CV or call the office for a confidential chat.