James Newbury

Are you an experienced Buyer available for an immediate start in a temporary to permanent position, temping for approximately 3 months before, all being well, going permanent? Rate of Pay: circa 15-16ph Salary: circa 32-35k Days/ Hours: Mon-Fri 830am-5pm (1 hr lunch) (37.5hrs per week) Location: Luton, Beds Duration: asap for 3 months or so then perm Overview: working as a Buyer, you will be responsible for ensuring the control and planning of all stock levels, including quoting on customer orders. Your goal will be to ensure stock supplies arrive in a timely fashion as agreed and to the specifications required, negotiating the best prices where possible. Key Responsibilities and Duties: - Processing purchasing requisitions accurately and efficiently - dealing professionally and effectively with all suppliers across the UK and overseas ordering stock and agreeing schedules - working closely with the supply chain team with inventory management, reviewing levels and reporting on them to ensure enough stock is held / on order but not overstocked costing the company money - supporting the coordination of the inbound logistics and deliveries - great communication with all parties working closely with them, keeping them informed along the way of arrival of stock, delays, updates, checking order confirmations and uploading the orders onto the purchase management system - dealing with all order enquires via phone and email so excellent English verbal and written communication skills are a must - obtaining supplier approval in accordance with ISO9001 or other applicable QS - liaise with Accounts department re invoice/purchase issues - maintain stock levels constantly in the purchase system so it is always accurate and up to date - ad hoc support Personal Requirements - prove related experience in a buyers/procurement department - ideally you will have worked in a stock distribution environment so understand the supply chain of stock and orders - stock monitoring / forecasting experience would be ideal - commercial acumen of awareness of negotiating prices, best deals and best opportunities available - good MS Office knowledge - Word Excel and Outlook - ERP purchasing management systems experience or similar - accurate data skills - Excellent attention to detail - a self starter with initiative - Someone that can work in a fast paced environment and still keep organised - excellent English verbal and written communication skills - full rights to work in the UK (not a student visa as no sponsorship for this temp role) a great supportive team player this is a pretty unique company that offers a great working environment for its staff. So, if you want to be part of it for the next few months, then please send James Newbury Appointments your CV for review. If we do not respond within 3 working days, unfortunately, on this occasion you have not been shortlisted, though we do suggest you keep an eye for other potentially suitable roles as we would love to assist you if we can. Thank you for your interest.

We have a great opportunity for a temp Training Administrator to support in the busy, dynamic training department of this Top 100 companies to work for in the UK Rate of pay: 13.45ph (so 470 gross for working 35 hrs per week) Days/Hours of Work: Mon-Fri 9am - 5pm (35 hours per week) with the odd need to start at 8am-4pm on course days Start: asap Benefits: free parking pension (after qualifying period) 28 days holidays per annum (rising to 32 when permanent) plus lots of great further benefits when permanent Location: Houghton Regis, Beds Overview of Training Administrator Role you will be required to help with your fab skills and attitude, in the smooth and efficient running of the Training Department by providing great customer service to the companies clients. As the training administrator, you will be working in a busy environment and will need to be able to organise your workload to be able to respond to what is priority. The main part of your role will be : - contacting delegates (construction sector workers), who are booked on the training course to ensure they have the correct details ie location, dates, if they have any dietary requirements, etc Basically, be a professional, friendly person, with a great phone manner to ensure the delegate knows what is what and thinks how wonderful you are - helping set up and arrange the training venues eg ensure displays are set up, wheel screens to training rooms, paperwork in situ, screens set up etc so physically fit to lift and move equipment - help with the administration of preparing and sending out the certificates - administration of course results into database, so good, accurate data entry skills and excel - invigilating exams and supporting the Training Team Leader. - meet and greet delegates arriving to courses, getting them signed in and directing them - flexible to do an 8am start when required You will need to have: good people skills to engage and build rapport with the delegates, talking to them confidently and professionally excellent phone manner as the company do a lot of training courses so a lot of ensuring the delegates are called and all info given and obtained correctly good data entry skills to record the info of the delegates and the results a flexible manner to be able to work on odd occasions from 8am-4pm rather than 9am-5pm (35 hrs per week) good Excel skills to record results excellent verbal and written communication skills as lots of phone work a real team player for this small but perfectly formed team If you feel you are the right person with the right customer service and admin skills, and are keen to be part of one of the best companies to work for in the UK (and it really is!) then please send your CV to James Newbury Appointments for review. If you do not hear back within 3 working days, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion, we would like to thank you for your application and wish you will in your search.