Purchasing Administrator – Full Time

We are recruiting a highly organised, detail-focused administrator to join our fast-paced Purchasing Administration Team.

You’ll need to use your excellent organisational and administrative skills to help us manage and maintain a large and fast-moving number of purchase orders that are raised by our buyers every day.   These purchase orders need to be checked on a daily basis to ensure they contain accurate delivery and stock information.  This is critical core data that feeds  through to our website and hence helps our customers to make informed buying decisions.

You’ll need good communication skills to ensure that you can convey messages from suppliers to sales staff and stakeholders at Andertons as well as to all customers who have stock on order.   Being highly computer literate and mathematically proficient is a must.

Key Skills

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Strong administrative skills and the ability to multi-task.
• A high level of computer literacy, especially MS Outlook and Excel. This includes extracting data from excel, using look up tables and excel formulas.
• Clear and articulate telephone manner.
• High attention to detail and the ability to work quickly and accurately.
• Excellent time management and prioritisation with a commercial mindset.

Key Tasks

• Maintain our stock purchase orders with up-to-date stock and delivery information
• Communicate key information from suppliers to our sales staff, warehouse goods in team and other stakeholders where necessary.
• Liaise with suppliers to confirm delivery times for outstanding purchase orders and update systems on a daily basis with the information obtained.