Job Title
Purchasing Associate
Department
Purchasing
Responsible For
No direct reports
Responsible To
Head Of Purchasing
Main Purpose of Job
- Chasing of all overdue Purchase Orders on a daily basis
- Proactive resourcing of outstanding purchase orders
- Use of Supplier back order reports and order acknowledgments to ensure our system is updated with as much information as possible
- Liaise with Sales Team to communicate any issues arising with their orders
- Cancel and amend orders as necessary, including initiating returns procedures
- Provide departmental mailbox management when required
- Take ownership of queries and follow through to completion
- Develop relationships with all key Suppliers to enable improved ETA accuracy we provide to our sellers / customers
- Provide cover for other members of the department as necessary and perform other tasks if requested
- Excellent administration skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrates the ability to work well under pressure
- Highly motivated with ability to work under own initiative, making decisions to benefit CDW (UK) Ltd
- Demonstrates attention to detail, time management and organizational skills
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Motivated and driven
- Ability to be proactive with proactive thinking
- Self-starter and ability to work on own initiative
- Positive, enthusiastic and supportive individual
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to take ownership of and progress queries to resolution
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
- Demonstrated attention to detail
- Ambitious to grow successful career within CDW
- Passionate, professional, with a can-do attitude at all times
