Purchasing Officer

Purchasing Officer

WB Power Service is proudly part of The Wilmott Group and is a leading generator specialist that provides solutions, maintenance, sales and hire to customers across the UK. This is a superb opportunity for Purchasing Officer to join the business through this rapid period of growth. The business is looking for a driven and motivated Purchasing Officer to support the team through these exciting times.

We are a family owned and run business and truly hold our values at the heart of everything we do offering a unique and friendly place of work; whilst maintaining the highest of professional standards.

The Role

• Be an ambassador for the new Procurement function
• Build and maintain effective relationships with all stakeholders
• Drive high performance of the entire Supply Chain
• Process Purchase requests and place Purchase Orders with Suppliers
• Ensure all procurement activities are conducted in accordance with established procedures, local laws and regulations and direction from Senior Management
• Communicate effectively with suppliers regarding purchase order commitments and drive OTIF
• Obtain quotations from existing and new potential new suppliers
• Negotiate with suppliers regarding some commercial conditions
• Transform purchase requests to purchase orders to an agreed service level
• Confirm purchase orders with suppliers
• Communicate any difficulties or delays back to the business through agreed channels
• Maintain master data on system(s) and in other locations
• Create new part numbers
• Analyse and resolve invoice queries with suppliers

The Person

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in similar position
• Experience in a manufacturing environment is essential
• Procurement or Supply/Chain related qualification such as CIPS would be advantageous
• Basic knowledge of MS Office i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word etc
• Experience with any major ERP system is desirable
• Able to work autonomously on processes with agreed service levels
• Service and solution-orientated
• Basic analytical skills

What we offer

• Market-leading salary 
• 25 Days holiday plus statutory
• Private healthcare
• Death in Service
• Outstanding employee assistance programme