Planning & Purchasing Administrator

Planning & Purchasing Administrator – Leigh – Earn £12.98 to £14.42 per hour – Full Time - Immediate Start – Apply Now!
Assist Resourcing are looking for Planning & Purchasing Administrators in Leigh to work with our client, who are a plastic products supplier in Leigh.

Employee Benefits:
Competitive Earnings:

• £12.98 to £14.42 per hour
• Monthly Site bonus (up to 5%)
• Company Bonus

Excellent Facilities:

• Comfortable break areas
• Casual Dress
• Free, secure car parking

Professional Development:

• On-going training
• Free upskilling opportunities

As well as offering a good work life balance, a welcoming team and Christmas shut down. Our client really do offer it all!

Roles & Responsibilities:
Purchasing and Planning activities:

• On receipt of sales orders from sales office - establish whether raw materials are on site and available to manufacture the job
• Determine most appropriate & efficient production line to plan the work
• Feed delivery date information back to Sales Office
• Order any required raw materials, taking care to use correct supplier, pricing, volumes, and month of requirement.
• Regularly consult with production, technical and sales, to ensure that material is run to standard and on time.
• Stock checking on a monthly basis, receiving quantity data from warehouse, and cross checking that all items are present and correct.
• Any anomalies to be investigated, and the system to be updated where appropriate.
• Always maintaining standard raw material stock levels on site.
• To be able to cover other areas such as releasing sales orders
• Interaction with key suppliers to discuss supply performance, pricing, volumes etc.

Ad-hoc dutied include Accounts Data entry:

• Dealing with purchase invoices, accurately correlating invoices with goods in delivery notes, establishing the correct item and quantity has been received, and that the price is correct on the invoice to purchase order that was raised
• Inputting this into the accounting software, via the ERP
• Credit control – recording receipts from customers and allocating to the correct customer account. Maintaining records and chasing customers for overdue amounts
• Maintain and update company in-house databases and systems.
• Dealing with and responding to emails
• Invoicing and dealing with queries

The role will involve interaction with Production, Laboratory, Sales Office & Accounts / Finance. From the initial order phase through to delivery to customers and invoicing.

Working Hours:
You will be available to work Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00.

About you:
To be considered for this role, you will be required to have 12 months experience in a similar role. You must be able to demonstrate experience in Customer Service, have good computer skills and have an excellent attention to detail. You will be positive, proactive and have a flexible approach to work.

You will be a UK resident and will be able to travel to and from the site for your shift. We are unable to assist with VISA applications and cannot assist with relocation.

Interested?
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