Purchasing Assistant

We are recruiting for one of our long term clients based in Beckton, East London.

They are looking to recruit an experienced purchasing Assistant, their facility is a new building with modern offices and a great team feel.

Duties will include:

• Answering the telephone quickly, efficiently, in a polite and friendly manner
• Assist in the handling of incoming & outgoing post as required
• Respond to email queries on a daily basis from internal & external sources
• Oversee all stock exceptions as appropriate
• Manage incoming supplier acknowledgements on a daily basis
• Check supplier acknowledgement matches purchase order any changes / issues to be notified in writing
• Check pricing on incoming supplier acknowledgments and advise of any price discrepancies to be amended by admin assistant
• Update order due dates from supplier acknowledgements detailing incoming delivery dates
• Advise of any late deliveries via standard email template
• Deal with emails from suppliers advising of late deliveries by checking install dates against supplier’s delivery dates and work with planning / suppliers to meet all schedule planned dates
• Supplier invoicing
• Customer Invoicing
• Processing Sales Orders
• Processing Purchase Orders
• Producing Picking sheets relevant to sales order
• Sales & Purchase order amendments
• Provide ad-hoc support and assistance across the company
• Ensure all filing is up to date and filed correctly

Core competencies:

• Excellent organisation and administrative skills
• Acute time management
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Full training will be given including, bespoke software systems

Skills required:

• A positive attitude to dealing with people and a client focussed approach
• Excellent communication skills through all channels including written, oral, telephone, email and face to face as well as the ability to work within and as part of a team
• An excellent telephone manner and strong interpersonal skills
• Knowledge and ability to use proficiently standard office computer software, including MS Office suite; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, databases and spreadsheets, email and internet applications
• Ability to work independently, including maintaining filing systems, databases
• An ability to work at a consistently high level of accuracy with acute attention to detail

In return for for your skills our client is offering a very competitive salary, 33 days holidays (inc bank holidays), company pension.

Hours of work are Monday to Friday - 9am to 5.30pm / Part time hours available

The position will be on a temp to perm basis.

Axiom Personnel are acting as an employment business in relation to this position.