RS Safety are the UK's leading supplier of PPE, safety, and hygiene products to the food manufacturing industry.
With customers of all sizes in almost every food sector, our success is based on exceptional customer service, a tailored supply chain and an extensive, well priced product list.
Our customer service encompasses each department, and we strive to supply products first time, in full to our customers.
As the Supply Chain Coordinator, you will be responsible for the overall purchasing activities, management and monitoring of inventory, coordinating receiving of goods and providing general operations support.
You will manage an array of key vendors, working closely with the Commercial team and Warehouse team to drive efficiencies and will have very strong communication skills and are able to work well under pressure.
What you will be doing: In this role, you will be creating purchase orders for current and forecasted demand and follow up with vendors to ensure purchase orders have the correct price, unit of measure, colour, description, size, and delivery date upon receiving confirmations.
You will coordinate with vendors in the event of an issue with delivery discrepancies.
Follow up with vendors on back orders and notify operations of any impacts to projected delivery dates and when purchase orders are due to be received to ensure they are on track.
You will be working alongside the warehouse team to support effective and smart purchases of key vendors while maintaining the approved supplier database in SAP and Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a supplier's key personnel.
What do I need to be successful?
If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you: A highly motivated and positive attitude is essential to this role as working within the Supply Chain team can often be very demanding and challenging.
Numeracy & Literacy skills.
Excellent communication both face-to-face and verbal.
Ability to prioritise and multi-task in a busy environment.
A desire to take the lead within the department and deputise in the absence of the supply chain manager.
Previous experience using SAP systems and outlook.
Strong Microsoft excel skills.
We are RS Group.
At RS we've been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones.
We turn the 'what ifs' into the 'why nots', the impossible into the possible.
Our purpose?
Making amazing happen for a better world.
? We offer service and product solutions.
We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries.
We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.
? We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy.
Because that's exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.
? We'll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.
? Come and join us and we