First Achieve Ltd Looking for Procurement Officer at Edinburgh Full Time

First Achieve Recruitment have a fantastic opportunity for a Procurement Officer, in the Edinburgh region. You will be working within a prestigious company, who have been established since the 1800’s, they have state-of-the-art facilities & are heavily involved in Global Manufacturing.

The role will be paying in the region of £28,000 – £32,000 per annum.

To support the business’ strategy by assisting in the development and management of a supply chain that delivers components, goods, services, and solutions on time, within budget and at the requisite quality.

Role:

• Use the designated system, IFS, to work towards raising, getting approved and sending purchase orders to suppliers.
• Enter and amend data on IFS in a timely manner ensuring data accuracy in all areas including and involving: Close monitoring of stock levels
• Working with the Purchasing team to review and update price lists
• Maintaining purchase order information
• Ensuring that supplier contact details are always kept up to date.
• Request quotations from suppliers for manufactured components, sub-assemblies and services.
• Respond to external enquiries regarding purchase orders and associated deliveries.
• Liaise with suppliers to progress orders to meet internal customer needs.
• Liaise with suppliers to resolve any discrepancies, seeking assistance and guidance from members of the
• Purchasing team when required.
• Provide day to day support to the Purchasing team and respond to internal enquiries from other departments
• Expediting all purchase orders to ensure parts are received on time
• Ensuring all relative purchase order paperwork is received to enable entry into stock
• Ensuring all ISO and other relative supplier qualifications are kept up to date.
• Assist with the Co-ordination of Core Supplier monthly reports and quarterly reviews
• Negotiate cost and lead times for new and existing parts
• Play a role in the ongoing development of the Procurement element of the IFS ERP system.

The successful candidate must:

• Experience of working in a busy procurement role with the ability to organise tasks and prioritise your workload
• Will have excellent communication and interpersonal and relationship building skills and be an effective team member
• IT Literate with working knowledge and experience of MS Office packages and confident in learning to use and work with In-house systems.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work on own initiative.
• CIPS qualified (preferably level 3 minimum) or willing to work towards.