£13.50 per hour
Purchasing Assistant
Pertemps Crewe are currently looking for a Purchasing Assistant for their new client based in Sandbach.
For this Purchasing Assistant role, you will be responsible for:
- Obtain quotes and lead times from suppliers for materials and services
- Raise and issue purchase orders, ensure order acknowledgements are received
- Check all PO’s issued and PO acknowledgements for price and delivery date accuracy
- Monitor delivery timescales and update the MRP system and the team with any changes to requested delivery date
- Expediate purchase orders where necessary
- Request PODs for orders received and GRN where necessary
- Check invoices received against purchase orders and highlight any discrepancies
- Update prices in the MRP system as required
- Add/update vendor details to the MRP system as required
- General administration support to the team
For this Purchasing Assistant role, you will need:
- Previous experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain roles
- Strong administrative skills – handling orders, invoices, and data entry
- Good communication – liaising with suppliers, internal teams, and customers
- Attention to detail – checking order accuracy, pricing, and delivery schedules
- Numeracy skills – working with prices, budgets, and quantities
- Organisation & time management – handling multiple tasks and deadlines
- Experience using purchasing or MRP systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics)
- Microsoft Excel – confident with spreadsheets, formulas, and data management
- General computer literacy (emails, document processing, internal systems)
Days/Hours of work: Monday to Friday 07:30 – 17:00 (1 hour lunch, 30 mins paid)
Salary: £13.50PH
Duration: 2 Months Initially
Location: Sandbach, Cheshire
If you are interested in this Purchasing Assistant role, please click apply.