I am recruiting for our prestigious client based on the outskirts of Huntingdon, who are seeking a Supply Chain Assistant to join their team on a temporary assignment for 3-4 months. I am looking for the right candidate that has worked within a sales order processor environment. The Supply Chain Assistants main purpose is t o support the Commercial Manager to ensure that our clients products arrive on time, in full and to the specification required.  This role is a crucial cog in their procurement machine.

Are you available immediately? Do you have the relevant experience required below? If so, please apply today!

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that confirmations are loaded onto the system with supporting information (AWB, arrival times).
• Sending Quality controller reports to growers and following through any outstanding issues.
• Monitor daily arrivals vs ordered quantities
• Assist with ordering samples
• Review daily additional work
• Updating 9am KPI’s
• Review customer requirements with the commercial and planning teams and feedback any challenges or opportunities
• Anticipate on any variances from the supplier’s side and feedback to the business
• Update procurement reports
• Send weekly forecasts to growers
• Reviewing and checking invoices
• Zero price reporting and updating price data
• Review and update generic arrival times for all incoming deliveries
• Model longer term demand and sales and monitor overall positions

Skills/Experience:

• Prior office administration experience (Desirable not essential)
• IT Literate – High level of IT literacy with extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Rubicon experience beneficial but not essential

• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent numerical and literacy skills
• Accuracy & attention to detail
• Excellent planning & organisational skills
• Prepared to see the job through to the end
• Strong ability to coordinate
• Analytical
• Ability to work under pressure and with own initiative

Salary & Working Hours

• £14.42 per hour
• Start time 07:00am
• 30 hours per week (flexible), can work 4 or 5 days per week.