Paterson Recruitment Are recruiting a Purchasing Assistant to work with our Banbury based Client. 

As a Purchasing Assistant you will be assisting the Purchasing Manager with placing purchase orders and chasing up delivery dates.

Daily Tasks:

• Placing purchase orders for stocked products
• Checking supplier order confirmations and keeping prices correct on the system
• Dealing with any product / delivered quantity issues with the warehouse and the supplier
• Chasing any overdue purchase orders and keeping the system updated with expected dates
• Liaising with freight forwarders to collect groupage and full container loads
• Receipt in Purchase Orders for drop-ship orders
• Update Due List with PO’s for the warehouse with when they are being delivered
• Actively tidying up purchase orders on the system with suppliers if full PO’s haven’t been received
• Liaising with the Finance Team to resolving stock and non-stock invoice queries
• Raise payment requests to finance and maintain a proforma payments spreadsheet
• Respond to supply queries from showrooms
• Updating monthly sales usages
• Assisting Purchasing Manager with any ad-hoc tasks deemed necessary

Experience Required:

• Good telephone and email communication
• Proactive and well organised
• Attention to detail
• Previous experience of purchasing, ideally in the bathroom industry.