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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Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.

Tagged Resources Limited acts as an employment agency. We have 25 years of Recruitment and Industry experience, working with Retail and Supply Chain markets and have various positions available. If this vacancy does not suit your experience and you are looking for a suitable role, please look at our website or follow us on social networking sites.  All are updated daily.