Logistics & Purchasing Assistant

• Position: Logistics and Purchasing Assistant
• Location: Welwyn Garden City, Herts
• Salary: £25,000 -£27,000 per annum
• Contract: Full-time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week
  Monday to Friday: 8:00am-4:30pm or 8:30am-5:00pm

Logistics & Purchasing Assistant:

Are you highly organised, detail-oriented, and looking for a dynamic role in logistics and purchasing?

If so, then maybe the opportunity to join a friendly, growing and specialist team that delivers and maintains security systems for leading companies across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa appeals to you?

Job Role:

As a Logistics and Purchasing Assistant, you’ll play a vital role supporting procurement, stock control, shipping, and administration functions within a small, collaborative environment. This is a varied role split between working in a busy, well organised warehouse and office.

Key Responsibilities:

This role includes assisting with many purchasing, logistics and administrative tasks within the business including but not limited to the following:

• Placing Orders for equipment with approved suppliers and obtaining most competitive prices
• Receive and correctly store deliveries
• Ensuring equipment to be shipped is correctly packaged (inc. palletizing) and all correct documentation in place. Including shipping to locations abroad
• Assisting with the care and manual handling of orders received and dispatched from their offices including accurate traceability and current order status
• Use of company managed IT systems to maintain accurate, 'live’ and detailed records of orders, stock and asset management. Including inventory of stock
• A degree of Processing of Purchase invoices, delivery notes and other order status updated
• Managing returns and hire of equipment and the tracking current status
• Providing general assistance within the office including help with telephones, general admin and care for the office
• Comply with our clients Policies and Procedures to ensure they comply with relevant Standards for our industry and IT functions
• Follow standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to the appropriate internal teams
• Provide prompt and accurate feedback to customers and management
• Ensure proper recording, closure and management of issues and tasks
• Opportunities for career development with further training (e.g CIPS & Industry training).

Qualifications:

• Must have great attention to detail
• Excellent IT Skills (MS Office Suite)
• Be flexible & proactive
• Good written and spoken communication
• Being able to work with one or more teams and alone
• Strong work ethic and ambition to progress
• Reliable & Honest
• 5 GCSE’s Grade 5 or above or equivalent
• Ability to drive forklift (training available)

Department Goals:

• Stores area to be highly organised and tidy with easy to understand where equipment is located
• 'Live’ status of all order lines and equipment in stores or being delivered to projects
• Building up asset database for equipment installed for clients
• Working with IT to develop, improve and implement systems to improve efficiency

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is keen to pursue a career within logistics and purchasing where you’ll be part of a supportive and growing team where your contribution truly matters. This role offers hands-on experience across multiple areas and genuine opportunities for career development, including industry training and professional development (e.g. CIPS certification).

Thank you for your interest in this vacancy, which is being advertised by TalentHQ Ltd, acting as an Employment Agency. Your application will be considered alongside others, and we will contact you within 5 working days if you are shortlisted. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond to each applicant individually. By applying for this role, you accept our Privacy Policy which you'll be able to view on our website: www.talenthq.co.uk