Procurement and Planning Executive

The Role
Reporting to the Operations Director, you’ll take responsibility for day-to-day purchasing and stock availability while helping develop smarter, more effective procurement practices. Your focus will be on maintaining availability, improving stock control, strengthening supplier performance and supporting better commercial decisions.

Day to day duties include:

• Planning and placing purchase orders, monitoring deliveries and resolving supply issues.
• Analysing demand, sales trends and supplier lead times to make informed stock decisions.
• Identifying slow-moving, excess and obsolete stock and taking action to reduce it.
• Reviewing pricing and negotiating competitive costs and commercial terms.
• Building effective supplier relationships and improving service and quality performance.
• Identifying alternative sources when supply is at risk.
• Improving purchasing processes, stock settings, reporting and systems.
• Working closely with internal teams and providing clear recommendations to the Operations Director.

The Organisation
Our client is an established and growing organisation that has undergone significant development in recent years. Continued growth has created a more sophisticated operation, with increasing emphasis on data, stronger processes and informed commercial decision-making.
About You
You’ll bring experience from purchasing, procurement, stock management, supply planning or inventory, together with strong numerical and analytical skills. You’ll be confident interpreting purchasing and stock data, negotiating with suppliers and making commercially sound decisions.

Just as importantly, you’ll be proactive, organised and comfortable taking ownership. You’ll enjoy getting into the detail while also spotting opportunities to improve processes and prevent recurring problems.