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Role: Raw Material Purchasing Assistant

Location: North Cave, East Yorkshire with some travelling

Salary: £21 – 23k plus benefits

Job overview 

Are you looking to join an award-winning company and be part of a motivated, goal-oriented team dedicated to serving customers, suppliers whilst having a positive impact on the environment? 

We are a leading edible oils and food fats recycling company based in East Yorkshire. As our Raw Material Purchasing Assistant, you would directly support our Raw Material Purchaser to evaluate, review and communicate with our suppliers with the procurement of raw material, which we process and blend into feedstock for biofuel and renewable energy for the biogas industries.  

Key job functions 

Fundamental to our growth and our customer-focused approach, you would be in daily contact with our suppliers, helping to maintain and build important relationships and ensure all supplier records are kept up to date. 

You’ll oversee incoming raw materials onto our site and work closely with our finance, transport and operation teams to ensure the raw material is brought in as agreed and with the correct paperwork.

Administrative and management tasks and responsibilities:

• Supplier database management: You’ll manage this database, ensuring all supplier records are kept up to date with contact details, agreed pricing, payment terms and agreed testing tolerances.
• Reporting: You’ll be responsible for providing supplier reports and data analysis to review collections and identify potential gaps in line with key suppliers and KPIs.
• Asset management: You’ll be responsible for reviewing, tracking and monitoring assets on supplier sites and ensuring they are in good working order.
• Finance: Working with the Finance team, you’ll raise purchase orders, ensure supplier invoices are dealt with and supplier reports are sent out within the agreed supplier payment terms. 
• Contract management: You will maintain and update supplier contracts to ensure pricing and volume is recorded correctly and highlight renewal contract dates.
• Collections: Working closely with the Transport team for supplier collections you will generate supplier collection forms instructing the Transport team of collection details.
• New suppliers: You will work closely with the Raw Material Purchaser to identify and contact potential new suppliers, and be responsible for managing a suitable contacts database.
• Market analysis: You will provide up to date market reports to review, map, analyse and present to the raw material team.

Communication tasks and responsibilities:

• You will consistently communicate with our suppliers to build and retain good working relationships and advise them of the results of raw material purchased and payments.
• You will handle supplier complaints, liaising with the necessary internal team to ensure complaints are dealt with in a timely manner and communicate the outcome to the supplier.
• Working closely with the operations team, you will ensure the raw materials received are as agreed.
• You will support the delivery of our marketing strategy.

Essential criteria

Think you’re the ideal fit for this role? Before you apply, check the following list which outlines the essential criteria we’re looking for: 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (telephone, online and face-to-face); 
• Customer relationship management skills; 
• High attention to detail; 
• Good sense of commercial awareness;
• Data analysis experience to identify gaps and conduct administrative support activities; 
• Ability to consistently work to a high standard, accurately reviewing and tracking data; 
• Excellent understanding and proficiency working in Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and CRM systems; and
• Full UK driving licence.

How to apply

To apply, email your CV and cover letter to Suzanne McKenzie, Raw Material Purchasing Manager. Email: suzannem@brocklesby.org    

Closing date for CVs: Sunday 15 March 2020