Ref: AJ44617

Purchasing Assistant

職種 営業/ビジネスディベロプメント
雇用形態 Full-time, Permanent
勤務地 ロンドン
給与(年収) Negotiable / Neg
福利厚生 Salary: Dependent on prior experience
A fast-growing, family-owned, specialist seafood wholesale business is looking for a purchasing assistant to help their Purchasing Team.
This is a new role in a dynamic, fast-growing wholesale company whose customers
boast over 25 Michelin stars. On a daily basis, you will be responsible for reviewing and maintaining stock levels, calculating order volumes, negotiating prices, placing orders, and ensuring suppliers maintain the necessary levels of quality and specifications.
The successful candidate will be highly numerate, proficient with Excel and IT systems,
and understand the requirements and challenges of a quality-led perishable
foodservice business, ideally with seafood experience. You will be good at
negotiating and developing relationships with suppliers. As well as procurement, you
will have a good wider understanding of sales, warehousing, logistics and pricing.
You need to be able to work under pressure, to deadlines, in a dynamic and hardworking
team, whilst maintaining a positive attitude to everyone around you.
There is plenty of opportunity to learn, develop and progress in this forward-looking,
entrepreneurial business.
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PURCHASING ASSISTANT RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the supporting daily purchasing and delivery of full range of seafood
products (live, fresh, frozen, cured, wild and farmed) from UK and foreign
suppliers
• Reviewing sales reports and pre-orders to see what have been sold and presold.
• Reviewing and maintaining adequate stock levels to fulfil current and future
orders, whilst minimising wastage
• Making quick and accurate decisions on quantity of products to order.
• Inputting supplier orders in the system
• Liaising with Goods In manager, informing suppliers of any discrepancy
regarding price, quality, specification or quantity received vs quantity
invoiced
• Checking delivery notes and invoices
• Processing and chasing suppliers for credit notes
• Liaising with sales team for special orders, forward orders, and special product
requests.
• Assisting and reporting to Purchasing Manager
• Writing up daily buying books, supplier/products/prices
• Raising Purchase orders in NAV and sending the order to suppliers
• Printing price list from suppliers and filing in the weekly price book
• Printing stock sheets for upstairs and downstairs
• Checking supplier invoices match our purchase orders and posting if they match
• Liaising with suppliers on goods returned or wasted and chasing for the credit
•Cross checking statements against our system and requesting missing invoices
•Completing new supplier account forms


PURCHASING ASSISTANT IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Similar procurement or warehousing role in perishable foodservice company
with turnover in excess of £5m
• Knowledge of seafood products and suppliers
• An interest in Seafood/ sustainability
• Cross-department experience in finance, sales, pricing, warehousing,
procurement and logistics (desirable)
•‘Can Do’ attitude – a desire to learn and succeed.
• Committed to the delivery of accurate, high-quality work
• Positive, helpful, trustworthy, disciplined, flexible, quick learner, confident and
Reliable
•Good grasp of Excel
更新日: 39 days ago
Ref: AJ44617