Primary Objective:
- To support procurement activities by raising purchase orders, managing supplier interactions, monitoring stock requirements, and ensuring accurate and timely product availability.
Main Tasks:
- Create and process Purchase Orders (POs).
- Assist in sourcing suppliers and obtaining competitive quotes.
- Monitor supplier lead times and follow up on deliveries.
- Maintain backorder and critical inventory reports.
- Provide administrative support in procurement audits.
Key Responsibilities:
Procurement Support
- Create and process Purchase Orders (POs) as instructed.
- Maintain accurate filing of all POs and procurement documentation.
- Assist in sourcing suppliers and obtaining competitive quotes.
- Monitor supplier lead times and follow up on deliveries.
- Support Product Supply Manager in procurement planning and MRP.
Reporting & Administration
- Assist in maintaining backorder and critical inventory reports.
- Ensure all transactions and records are updated on Sage and Excel.
- Provide administrative support in procurement audits and compliance.
Measures of Success
- Increased PV, Customer Satisfaction, and Decrease Business Expenditure.
Physical Demands & Work Environment
- The physical demands and the work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to talk, stand, walk, kneel, bend, pull, feel, reach, grasp, crawl, hear, and/or climb stairs.
- The employee is required sit for extended periods of time and is required to operate telephone and software via computer.
- The employee is required to have the ability to lift or carry up to 20 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
- The noise levels are usually moderate.