Purchasing Administrator

Jackson Hogg is delighted to be supporting a large manufacturing business based in Blyth with the appointment of an Indirect Purchasing Administrator. This is a full time, permanent position and an opportunity to join an established team in the Indirect Purchasing function. This team are responsible for all purchases outside of their core production, experience with Indirect purchasing is not essential, but general purchasing experience is required.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Support wider departments with purchase requests; sourcing items, quotation requests and generating purchase orders.

• Oraganise travel and approvals for the purchasing department (and nominated departments).

• Profile creation and deletion for travel and expenses.

• Management of the Sharepoint travel tracker

• Negotiate for yearly preferred UK hotels.

• Control and assign Air Miles awarded to the company/document savings.

• Capital sanction process for nominated departments.

• To clarify any discrepancies and handle queries from suppliers and internal customers in a timely manner.

• General administrative tasks for Indirect Purchasing Manager Additional Roles

Desired skills / competencies (may be gained in post):

• Microsoft Office packages.

• SAP

• Working knowledge of dealing with suppliers.

• Ability to adhere to strict deadlines

• Ability to multi-task