Purchasing Assistant – Entry Level Opportunity 

Purchasing Assistant – Entry Level Opportunity  
Sanderstead, Croydon  

Are you an enthusiastic individual with excellent communication skills? Want to learn, grow and embark on a rewarding career as a Purchasing Assistant? If so, read on.  

The Organisation  

Committed to providing excellent service, our client is a growing distributor of high quality office products and solutions. They are now looking for a Purchasing Assistant to join their friendly team.  

The Benefits  

- Salary of £20,000 - £25,000 DOE  
- Free on-site parking  
- Learn from a highly-skilled team  
- 20 days’ holiday  

This is a fantastic opportunity to significantly increase your skill-set and begin your career in purchasing with a market-leading business.  

Our client promotes a culture that recognises individuality and excellent team spirit. They believe in treating each other with respect and support their employees to challenge themselves, try out new things and realise their full potential.  

Working with a huge array of retail partners and reseller organisations, we’ve built a reputation for reliability and for coming through for our clients. We pride ourselves on our stock availability and range, and that’s where you’ll come in…..

The Role 

As a Purchasing Assistant, you will provide a range of support to the Purchasing Team to assist with a wide variety of activities from attending supplier meetings to providing product spec for the catalogue.

In this engaging role, you will:  

- Support Buyers on catalogue meetings with suppliers 
- Communicate with suppliers and update related documentation 
- Assist with the collection of information for tenders 
- Help to produce product catalogues 
- Write product information for the website and catalogues 
- Ensure that all product data is up-to-date and accurate 
- Help to resolve invoice queries

About You  

To be considered as a Purchasing Assistant, you will need:  

- At a minimum, an A Level (or equivalent) in English Language   
- To be eager to learn and increase your skill-set  
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships  
- A highly-organised approach  

Previous buying experience would be beneficial, but this is not essential as full training will be provided. Knowledge of office products would also be an advantage, as would a strong understanding of Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Ideally, you’ll also be able to work on multiple projects and ensure deadlines are adhered to.  

Other companies may call this role Purchasing Administrator, Trainee Purchasing Executive, Trainee Buyer, Purchasing Administrator, Procurement Assistant or Procurement Co-ordinator.  

Webrecruit and our clients are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. 

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Purchasing Assistant, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.  

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week