A rare opportunity has arisen within one of our well established Tameside firms. We are on the search for a Purchasing Assistant, please note this is not an admin role. Temporary to permanent.

Some duties include but not limited to:

• Purchase the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible price and economic order quantity based on an Approved Vendor List.
• Provides purchasing support to the various departments of the company, i.e. Assembly, Packaging, Validation, Quality Assurance.
• Review and process supplier costs and quotes for product.
• Analysis of supplier changes on inventory and pricing.
• Sustaining cost and other material related information for multiple supplier lines to make qualified and accurate decisions.
• Daily communication with suppliers.
• Manage and chase the acknowledgement process.
• Plus lots more involved

What skills you will need:

• Technical capacity
• Financial management
• Communication, and time management
• Good organizational skills
• Ability to make decision
• Min of 1 – 2 years of purchasing related experience or demonstrate knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the tasks
• Working within a busy main office

What else you need to know:

• £13.47 per hour
• 38 hours per week, earlier finish Friday
• Canteen and parking on site

Bennett Staff has been successfully placing candidates since 1958 and acts as an employment agency for permanent staff and an employment business for temporary workers. We recruit for roles based in Office, Warehousing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Industrial and all categories of Catering staff.

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We aim to respond to all successful applications within 7 days. If you have not been contacted within this time, your application will have been unsuccessful, and your details will not be held.

We apologize that we are unable to contact everyone in person and thank you for your interest.