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Purchasing Assistant (B2B)

Job Posted: 10 hours ago

Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Winsford, Cheshire

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Job Title: Purchasing Assistant

Location: Winsford, Cheshire

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

About The Company:

Gemco is the largest garage equipment company in the UK providing repair, maintenance, installation and sales solutions to a range of fast fit centres, dealerships, independent garages and commercial fleet operators.

About The Role:

To work alongside colleagues at our warehouse facility in Winsford, helping to provide high stock availability levels on core products in line with the company's stocking policy for spare parts and ensuring that customer service levels agreement are maintained in the most cost-efficient manner.

Key Responsibilities:

Generate daily / weekly / monthly stock replenishment orders from approved suppliers.
Maintain availability level targets as determined by the company in the most cost-efficient manner.
Maintain accurate ETAs on all product lines on open orders.
Communicate ETAs and details of stock to warehouse team ahead of arrival.
Accurately record all customs entries for orders from outside the UK.
Work with equipment Purchasing Co-ordinator to reduce transport costs.
Chase up (and action accordingly) overdue orders with approved suppliers and confirm delivery dates for customer portal status update.
Order items outside of core products / stocking policy for spare parts for specific customer orders and communicate the latest status to the appropriate key stakeholders.
Update system cost prices and lead times when changes arise whilst updating selling prices in line with company policy.
Action and confirm supplier invoices i.e. pricing, shortages.
Communicate with key stakeholders any outstanding issues where appropriate.
Identify and execute opportunities for continuous improvement.About you:

Qualifications & Requirements:

Ideally at least 2-3 years experience in purchasing
Technical or engineering knowledge is desirable, or able to demonstrate an aptitude to learn new products and their uses quickly
IT literacy including Microsoft Office knowledge with Excel at intermediate level
Good analytical skills and strong attention to detail and accuracy
Efficient organisational and time management skills
The ability to identify and execute opportunities for continuous improvement
Excellent levels of communication at all levels and strong team work
A positive, can-do attitude.Benefits:

'Medicash' Healthcare Plan
25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 26 days with service.
Company sick pay (increasing with service)
Company pension scheme
Life Assurance Scheme (increasing with service)
Bereavement leave
New engineer referral programme paying up to £2,500 per referralPlease click the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Gemco UK Ltd believes in equality of opportunity and will fairly consider all applicants regardless of gender, religious beliefs, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; B2B Purchaser, Purchasing, Procurement Administrator, Procurement Executive, Procurement Operations, Assistant Procurement Executive, Purchasing Assistant, Assistant Buyer, Office Assistant, Office Admin, Procurement Assistant may also be considered for this role

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