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Vacancy - Purchasing Coordinator Are you seeking a role in which you can support the Supply Chain strategy and assist with ensuring teams have the correct parts, materials and equipment to provide maximum asset uptime and availability?
Are you excited by the opportunity to be the main point of contact for the Clydeport cluster when it comes to purchasing enquiries?
We are seeking a PurchasingCoordinator to join our team at the Port of Greenock, and help us keep the world moving!
Your role In this role you support teams across our Clydeport cluster (Greenock, Glasgow and Dublin) to ensure Supply Chain procedures and policies are followed.
You will build and maintain excellent relationships with suppliers, negotiating prices and finding the best option of supply and ensuring parts/materials are available when they are required.
Working closely with key internal stakeholders, you will develop an understanding of demand for parts for their areas.
You will keep up to date with a rapidly changing market in order to manage costs and checking competitor guide prices regularly to ensure we are competitive in pitching sales.
You will manage any invoicing or delivery queries promptly and effectively, liaising with the Accounts team as required.
What you'll bring You will have previous experience in a purchasing role, ideally gained in a heavy industrial environment.
With excellent interpersonal and communication skills, you will have the ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
You will be a self-motivated individual, with excellent negotiation skills.
You will have strong IT skills, previous experience with SAP would be beneficial.
Whilst predominantly based in Greenock, you will occasionally be required to travel to other sites within the Clydeport cluster.
Who are we?
Already one of the UKs leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UKs leading port operator.
We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers.
Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.
Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology.
But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.
What we can offer you In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers.
Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as: 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays) Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
Commitment to learning and personal development Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, wed really like to hear from you!
Closing date for receipt of completed applications is 29th November 2024.
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