Purchasing Coordinator in Grantham, Lincolnshire

Are you a highly organised administrator with exceptional attention to detail and excellent communication skills? Do you take pride in keeping things running efficiently and being someone your colleagues can rely on?

We're working with a successful, values-driven business to recruit a Purchasing Coordinator to join their friendly and supportive team.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced administrator who enjoys a varied, fast-paced role, takes ownership of their responsibilities and thrives on providing high-quality support to others.

Whilst previous purchasing or supply chain experience would be advantageous, it's not essential. We're equally interested in hearing from candidates with strong administrative backgrounds who can demonstrate the right skills, attitude and approach.

The Purchasing Coordinator Role:

Working closely with the purchasing team, you'll play an important role in ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day operations, providing essential administrative support and maintaining effective communication with suppliers and internal departments.

Your responsibilities as Purchasing Coordinator will include:

• Processing, monitoring and tracking purchase orders, ensuring accurate records are maintained.
• Liaising regularly with key suppliers to obtain order acknowledgements, chase outstanding deliveries and provide updates.
• Building and maintaining positive supplier relationships through clear, professional and proactive communication.
• Monitoring outstanding orders, identifying potential delays and ensuring relevant colleagues are kept informed.
• Supporting the resolution of invoice queries and purchasing discrepancies.
• Maintaining accurate purchasing data within internal systems.
• Providing comprehensive administrative support to the Buyers, allowing them to focus on their wider purchasing responsibilities.
• Ensuring effective organisation and follow-up of multiple tasks, priorities and deadlines.

You'll have established processes and systems to work with, whilst also being encouraged to use your initiative and introduce your own organisational methods where appropriate.

About You:

We're looking for someone who combines outstanding administrative skills with a positive, personable approach.

You'll be naturally organised, meticulous in your work and confident communicating with a wide range of people. Importantly, you'll enjoy the detail involved in administration and recognise the value of providing consistent, reliable support to a busy team.

We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Strong administrative experience, ideally within a busy, process-driven environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail, with a commitment to accuracy and maintaining high standards.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to build relationships and follow up effectively with suppliers.
• Outstanding organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and maintain accurate tracking systems.
• A proactive and dependable approach, taking ownership of responsibilities and ensuring tasks are followed through to completion.
• A collaborative, positive personality, with a genuine willingness to support colleagues and contribute to a strong team environment.
• Good IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel and Outlook.

Experience within purchasing, procurement, supply chain, engineering or manufacturing would be beneficial, but is not a requirement. The role involves some technical information, and appropriate training will be provided.

What's on Offer?

• £30,000 salary
• Hybrid working – up to 2 days working from home
• 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service
• Discretionary bonus, with a minimum £1,000 award linked to individual and business performance
• 4% matched pension contribution
• Free electric vehicle charging
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Employee reward schemes
• Training and development opportunities

Why Join?

One of the most appealing aspects of this opportunity is the business itself. With a strong emphasis on its people, values and working culture, this is an organisation where collaboration, accountability and a positive attitude are genuinely important.

The team is looking for someone who will take pride in becoming a trusted and valued member of the department, someone who enjoys the responsibility of keeping things organised, supporting colleagues and ensuring the essential details are taken care of.

If you're an experienced administrator looking for a role where your organisational skills, attention to detail and contribution to the wider team will be genuinely valued, we'd love to hear from you.

For further information or a confidential discussion, please contact Emily at Anne Corder Recruitment.

Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd, your personal data may be added to our database as part of the application process. Our privacy policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data. Your details will be reviewed by one of our Recruitment Partners and we will contact you again within 5 working days if your application is to be progressed further.  

Please note that we are not able to provide support with visa sponsorships and all applicants must be based in the UK and hold the valid right to work in the UK

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