**Join a highly successful company making a positive impact on the environment**:
- **Equal Opportunity Employer with high values & an excellent culture**:
- **Busy & challenging position with loads of variety**
**About the Role**
Our client is a highly successful local manufacturing business who have been in operation since 1969. With a market share of 80% in South East Qld and beyond, they are continuing to go through a strategic growth phase throughout all parts of Australia and into NZ.
Due to continued growth, a fantastic opportunity is now available for a proactive, experienced Purchasing Officer who will be responsible for managing end-to-end purchasing processes, maintaining relationships with suppliers, monitoring contracts, and monitoring inventory levels. Working closely with the Operations Manager and Site Supervisors, this role will be operating in a fast-paced and dynamic environment where you will need to be pro-active, use your initiative and be comfortable coming up with ways to continuously improve.
**What's great about this role**:
- Exciting role you can take to the next level
- Secure, stable Company with strategic growth plans
- Extensive career growth opportunities
- Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed to diversity & inclusion in its employment practices
**Duties**:
- Working with Operations Manager and Site Supervisors to analyse and identify purchasing requirements
- Generating purchase orders for products, supplies, tools, equipment, and consumables, as required
- Conducting regular inventory audits and investigating discrepancies
- Maintain inventory levels to service the needs of internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinating transportation and shipping logistics for incoming goods
- Evaluating current supplier performance and conducting regular supplier assessments
- Identifying and evaluating potential suppliers and establishing new supplier relationships
- Negotiating pricing, terms, and service level agreements with suppliers to ensure cost-effectiveness and reliable supply
- Liaising with Accounts Payable to resolve any pricing, receipting and payment term discrepancies
- Producing supplier spend reports to identify cost savings opportunities or improvements to supply chain
- Liaise with all departments in a professional timely manner
- Perform general administration as required
**Skills and Experience**:
- Minimum 2 years purchasing experience, preferably within a manufacturing or construction environment
- Experienced working with ERP systems
- Good understanding of purchasing, inventory & warehousing control
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes or production, highly desirable
- Sound knowledge of computer systems, with the ability to produce meaningful reports
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Strong problem solving and organisational skills
**How to apply**
**Job ID: LB12138/01