Job Description
Title: Purchasing Co-ordinator
Location: Aztec West, Bristol
Longevity: Permanent, Full Time
Salary: Up to £29,000
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing to 30 days holiday with length of service)
- Pension scheme
- Access to private healthcare services
- Paid day off for your birthday
- Tech Scheme
- Bike Scheme
- Free counselling/wellness sessions
- Free gym and spa access for yourself and a friend
- Wellbeing days
- Social events
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday
Start Date: ASAP
Our Company:
Here at TC we are all about people, if you are bubbly, enthusiastic and hardworking TC is the company for you!
TC provides a wide range of office seating, desking, storage, conference and training furniture, exclusively through the trade, to clients across the UK and Europe.
We are a family run business and everyone within our TC Tribe looks at one another as family, our employees are the heart and soul of the business and where there is hard work there are rewards. We offer a variety of perks to our TC Tribe such as a day off for your birthday, private health care, free gym and spa access, Tech scheme and more.
At TC, we have a simple philosophy – People are important. Whether it's the people who use our products, the people who sell them or the dedicated team working here - people are at the heart of our company.
Job Purpose:
To be responsible for the planning and purchasing of products across suppliers in line with the supply chain team objective. Working to achieve KPI’s and proactively looking at ways in which to improving the supply chain efficiencies.
Main Duties:
- Optimise stock ordering in line with budgets, to minimise out of stocks and overstocks whilst maintaining fill rate & stock turn in line with team objective and company KPI’s
- Take ownership of a set SKU profile; using external software to help forecast purchasing requirements and prevent any ongoing supply issues
- Use sales data to identify trends and changes in the usual demand profiles
- Assist the Senior Demand Planner to drive improvement in forecast accuracy
- Manage supplier relationships, measure their performance and report accordingly
- Analyse and monitor priorities for loading with factories
- Monitor, investigate and resolve adjustments and reconciliations
- Manage incoming enquiries related to stock availability and work cross-functionally to assist with providing an exceptional customer experience to all internal customers
- Maintain excellent communication skills with suppliers and other teams inside the business
- Use initiative to actively resolve underlying issues and seek to change current processes
- Provide cover for holidays and sickness for the other team members
- To perform other tasks as and when required to do so
Skill and Experience:
- Experience in a Supply Chain or Purchasing role desirable
- Experience of Far East Supplier Management desirable
- An experienced user of Microsoft Excel
- Demonstrate an excellent numeric ability
- Proactive, 'can do' attitude
- Demonstrate excellent written and communication skills
- Provide excellent attention to detail
Personal Attributes:
- Flexibility to move outside the job description and standard hours as and when required
- Desire to help the company achieve its goals
- Motivated, positive, confident, and able to work from own initiative
Whilst we would love to respond to every single applicant applying to our roles, we are unable to reply to everyone due to the high number of CVs we receive on a daily basis. Please be aware that if you haven't been contacted within 10 working days then you have not been successful this time around.
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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £29,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Demand Planner v3