Role: Temporary Purchasing Administrator 

Location: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Role ID: 2025 - 3170

Salary: £15 per hour 

Ricardo in Leamington Spa are seeking a Temporary Purchasing Administrator for a period of up to 3 months.

Key responsibilities

• Administration of indirect purchasing including raising and placing Purchase Orders.
• Follow-up correspondence and enquiry handling including expediting goods or services.
• Receipting services on the system and handling invoice queries.
• Expediting production parts – emailing / calling suppliers for update or confirmation dates.

Key competencies, experience and behaviours 

• Meticulous attention to detail is really important and persistence in gathering data and other requested information.
• Office administration experience.
• Highly organised.
• Good communication skills with ability to talk to and concisely and accurately email suppliers.
• Basic level of Microsoft Excel.
• Able to use email.
• Happy to work within a team and alongside other experienced professionals in a supportive team.
• Maths and English Minium GCSE Level 5 / C.
• Experience in purchasing in a manufacturing environment desirable but not essential.
• Experience of working with MRP/ERP systems for manufacturing desirable but not essential.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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