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Buying/Purchasing Assistant

Birmingham

The Company:

We are looking for a Buying/ Purchasing Assistant to join a fashion supplier. You will support with the day-to-day administration including the critical path, purchase orders and shipments. The working hours are Monday to Friday 9-5pm. The main purpose of this job role is to assist the Buyer in the preparation, organising and management of all purchases, and ensuring supplies are obtained in a timely manner.

Duties and Responsibilities

Liaising with suppliers on a daily basis by e-mail and telephone

Following up, monitoring outstanding orders to ensure delivery dates are met

Maintaining weekly schedules. Updating a range of schedules externally (suppliers, customers) and internally (sales team and technical team), and reconciling against computer system

Liaising with warehouse for goods-in bookings, maintaining paperwork and system data

Stock level monitoring

Tracking and tracing shipments, liaising with shipping forwarders for shipping documentations and delivery bookings

Documentations - managing and filing

All other day to day general administration

Skills & Experience:

Highly computer literate, able to manage data, produce documents to the highest of standards

Excellent maths, numerate and accurate

Very good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other software packages e.g. Microsoft Word and Photoshop

Exceptional attention to detail

Able to work from own initiative with a high degree of organizational skill

Quick to learn with a Can Do attitude

Able to work under pressure

Ability to communicate effectively via telephone, email and face to face

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