Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting exclusively for our Halesowen client, who are seeking a Purchasing Team Lead to join their busy and successful head office. This is an integral role within the organisation, with one direct report and they are offering a highly competitive salary and package.
Hours of work are Monday to Thursday 8am -5pm, Friday 8am - 2:30pm.
Duties and tasks will include:
*Oversight of the PO raising process, supported by one other Purchaser, but also raising PO’s yourself for certain suppliers and categories of spend
*Working with key suppliers to maintain lead times in Business Central
*Management of SKU’s, monitoring usage and SKU criteria to add and remove SKU’s as necessary. Running of Slow Moving Inventory reports
*Review of different product category ROP’s and ROQ’s to manage the thresholds but to also drive the purchasing demand into Purchase Requisitions
*Management of placing and draw down of purchase blanket orders and securing of material to support blanket sales orders
*Supplier quotes for special orders and for underlying purchases
Candidates welcome to apply for the role will have the following:
*Have 5+ years experience working in Purchasing roles
*Have experience of running reports from the ERP system
*Be comfortable working with manipulating/analysing data in Excel (Using Pivots etc.)
*Have a flexible approach to tasks undertaken
*Have excellent standards and good attention to detail
*Have great communication skills and work well in a team and with wider functions
Parking is available.