Job Description

Orion Recruitment are exclusively partnered with our blue-sky thinking client located on the outskirts of Oxford on their latest Purchasing vacancy.

The Purchasing Administrator is purely there to support the two most senior members of the Purchasing Team on some of the highest profile projects, you will be comfortable and confident in an engineering/manufacturing environment and used to working on a number of projects at any one time. 

As their newly appointed Purchasing Administrator you will be employed on a 9 Month Maternity Cover Contract, but you will be employed like a permanent member of staff so that you can still benefit from their benefits package system. 

The Purchasing Administrator will take the lead on: 

Raising Purchase Orders through their bespoke system 

Chasing statuses of various outstanding purchase orders through speaking to suppliers both via email and telephone. 

Collaborate with various internal teams such as Manufacturing, Warehouse on the updates of orders 

Update customers both verbally and via written communication on the status of orders. 

They will reward the Purchasing Administrator with: 

Private Medical Insurance

EV salary sacrifice scheme

Life insurance

Salary sacrifice pension at 5% employer, 3% employee

25 Days Holiday

Reward Bonus Scheme

EAP (Employee Assistance Programme with family access)

We will be excited to hear from you if you can show us: 

Experience of working in a Purchasing Support role e.g. Purchasing Coordinator, Purchasing Administrator, Junior Buyer 

Working in this role within a manufacturing or engineering environment 

Confident with using purchasing specific systems (MRP, ERP)

If you have the necessary skills and experience, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application today!

Due to the volume of applications we receive, unfortunately we are not able to respond to every application personally, therefore, if you have not heard back from us within 5 working days please assume your application has been unsuccessful. To see our other available vacancies please visit our website.

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