YOUR NEW ROLE

Are you happy contacting suppliers and customers, chasing and expediting orders? Do you have experience in a manufacturing environment? If so, our RFD Beaufort Division in Ellesmere Port seeks a Purchasing Coordinator on a temporary basis to join our team. Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, the Purchasing Coordinator will focus on data management updates in the ERP system and building relationships with suppliers in order to resolve queries.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PURCHASING COORDINATOR:

• Builds sound working relationships with allocated suppliers, ensuring buying is carried out within key supplier relationship terms. Contacts suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries and resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries.
• Responds to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes or cancellation.
• Updating data in our IFS ERP system.
• Checks shipments to ensure orders have been fulfilled accurately and meet specifications; compares supplier quotes and bills to ensure accuracy and approves bills for payment.
• Prepares purchase orders and other supplier communications, ensuring all Survitec systems are updated to ensure accurate tracking of spend.
• Utilises the central preferred supplier database, ensuring accurate recording of delivery and quality specifications. Compiles spend reports accurately, providing operations and commodity managers with accurate and timely overviews of supplier spend and performance .
• Resolves queries from internal customers or external suppliers, providing information on processes and related policies, escalating as needed to resolve complex issues.