Purchasing Administrator

Our client is one of the regions most well respected residential ground works companies, currently looking for a procurement administrator, to join their excellent team, in the Walsall area.
As Procurement Administrator, you will support the Procurement team by undertaking the day-to-day administration work, raising daily purchase orders as to the company database, organising paperwork and schedules, all whilst learning about the procurement aspects of the region and wider business.
Duties include:
- Take day to day material requests from site teams via phone or email and raise purchase orders.
- Process all purchase orders on company procurement system.
- Order all PPE/tools/skips for all sites, keeping records of each order to monitor quantities & values.
- Regular checking of Material on Site records to ensure surplus stock is being used / isn''t being re-ordered.
- Providing delivery dates to site teams.
- Maintaining daily records / schedules e.g. floor beams, road sweepers.
- Chasing deliveries if advised of failed/delayed deliveries.
- Escalating supplier issues to senior buyer.
This role will continue to evolve over time and grow alongside the existing Procurement team.
You must have:
* Strong IT skills, knowledge of Excel essential
* Raising of purchase orders
* Excellent organisation skills
* Ability to organise, plan
* Good at relationship building
* Excellent Communication skills
* Ability to organise workload effectively for the purpose of meeting deadlines
* Ability to demonstrate flexibility /adaptability combined with the ability to meet deadlines
* Ability to work autonomously and flexibly, responding to business needs
* Be a team Player
* Integrity
* Commitment
* Innovative Thinking
About Us
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