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Our Client is the global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance conveying and seasoning systems for the food industry. Our client is seeking a purchasing assistant to work alongside the buyer in their small, friendly purchasing team.

Responsibilities: Negotiating prices and discounts, placing and chasing purchase orders for all aspects of the business including:

• Raw material and components
• Electrical control gear and components
• Consumable items
• Plant and Equipment
• Motor vehicles
• Subcontract items
• Equipment for inclusion in turnkey projects
• Set up and manage service contracts; act on any breakdowns.
• Ensuring stock is maintained at an appropriate level:
• Check physical stock levels before re-ordering
• Review re-order points and re-order quantities
• Check existing allocations and orders
• Work with the stores to resolve stock discrepancies.
• Assist with stocktake and with stock reconciliations
• Progress meeting
• Attend weekly progress meeting
• Ensure that you have a full status ready for the meeting
• Keep PMs up to date when critical parts will not be on time for their project

Costs:

• Obtain competitive quotes where appropriate
• Negotiate and agree prices before placing orders
• Find alternative suppliers for third party spares
• Obtain signatures for high value orders.

Database Administration:

• Ensure that part descriptions are meaningful and accurate
• Check order acknowledgements and chase up un-acknowledged orders
• Request new consumable parts when you can see a repeated demand
• Ensure that the database is showing accurate costs
• Chase up overdue orders and clear off old balances
• Keep supplier database valid and up to date.

Quality:

• Ensure that all purchase orders contain the necessary information in a readable and correct format
• Use the correct ledger codes on purchase orders
• Work with stores and logistics to develop suitable quality checks.
• Assist with stocktake

Person specification:

• Some buying experience
• Experience in engineering buying advantage
• High attention to detail, accurate and efficient
• Strong problem solving and time management skills.

Hours

Monday - Friday 09:00 - 1700

DW54904

Our Client is seeking a Sales and Marketing assistant on a Temporary to Permanent basis. They are looking for someone who can initially start on a part time basis 20 -25 hours per week between Monday and Friday. This could lead to full time hours depending on business need. The client is flexible on start and finish times. They are in the scientific industry and are more than happy to train on their products.

Person Specification:

• Good telephone manner
• Able to communicate with new customers effectively
• Fast learner to absorb information about the products
• Availability to attend exhibitions, these will be fully paid for, including food, flights and accommodation etc
• Relatively high level IT knowledge, this is to access our website, add new products, adjust pricing accordingly, update as required
• Follow-up leads generated from website and Linked-in
• Liaise with another member within Marketing department of calls to be made
• Excel knowledge
• Carry out Mailshots
• Ability to create marketing material – with guidance
• Monitor and maintain presence on all Social Media platforms
• General Admin and office support where required
• A qualification in Sales Marketing or previous experience .

DW54879

Our prestigious client is looking to recruit an operative for their brand new purpose built warehouse.

You must be comfortable using machinery, very good with figures/measurements, picking material, packing material, loading lorries with orders, reporting to the section leader.

Side loader and Counterbalance Forklift experience advantageous – all training etc will be provided.

Hours are 11am – 8pm Mon to Thurs, 11am – 7pm on Fridays.

1 Saturday shift a month 7am – 12pm (paid at 1.5).

Salary £26K

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (some holiday will need to be saved for Christmas)

KJ54618