New opportunity for a skilled administrator with relevant experience to join our client in Sheffield as a Purchasing Assistant. Working closely with the procurement team to ensure the company is making cost savings, suppliers are meeting SLAs, and purchase orders are raised effectively, this is great chance to join a successful business in a team that really makes a positive impact on commercials.

Benefits:

• Life Assurance Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Occupational Health, health screening and wellbeing advice
• Discounted Westfield Health Plan 
• Employee discounts

Main duties will be to generate and record purchase orders using the ERP systems, creating new suppliers, and maintaining records for certification and compliance. The role will also include gathering and analysing data in MS Excel relating to category spend, cost savings and other weekly/monthly and ad hoc reports, as well as supporting the quotations process for new contracts.

• Analyse and compare quotation information
• Raise purchase orders through the system, ensuring all details are correct and categorised accordingly
• Entering receipts into the system, to ensure invoices can be accurately matched
• Collating and analysing purchasing spend data through the use of ERP dashboards & MS Excel, carrying out analysis to provide a breakdown by supplier and product category
• Producing & interpreting monthly commercial statistics and graphs
• Monitoring & reporting on Key Supplier service levels in line with the agreed SLA’s
• Assist in the collation of weekly savings sheets and be responsible for recording realised savings & updating monthly tracker reports

To be successful in your application you will need to be able to demonstrate:

• Substantial admin support experience, including report building and analysis using MS Excel
• Ability to interpret reports and numerical data 
• Working to a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Experience in the manufacturing/engineering sector is an advantage although not essential.
• Experience in a purchasing department or exposure to a purchasing department is an advantage but is not essential