Procurement Officer Walton-on-Thames, England
Job description
Kokoro Trading Ltd is a logistic company that supplies food ingredients especially Asian and packaging goods to Kokoro UK branches.
We import all our food ingredients from Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, China and Vietnam as nature of our client Kokoro specialises in Asian foods.
We are currently looking to recruit a procurement officer who is responsible for assisting the trading operations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establishing and maintaining supplier relationships to drive continuous range improvements
- Resolve issues relating to the accuracy of deliveries, quality rejects, invoice queries, overdue orders and production shortages
- Identifying new business opportunities to grow sales & profitability
- Processing orders in the company MRP/ERP system
- Planning a calendar of promotions and working with the sales team to manage stocks
- Working with the sales manager and suppliers to ensure products meet our high-quality standards
- Introducing new items from suppliers to the sales team
- Monthly promotional sales and product forecasting
- Using various methods and channels to raise purchase orders
- Secures and analyzes quotations; negotiates prices and terms with suppliers
- Labelling, logging, organising and filing samples
- Conducting over the phone and face to face business review meetings
Requirements
- Buying and/or trading experience in retail and/or wholesale or any food business is preferred
- Good negotiation skills and influencing skills
- Strong numeracy and analytical ability to find trends and patterns from reports
- Experience in using forecasting tools and techniques, ERP software solutions and intermediate to advanced user of all Microsoft Office tools including Excel
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Fluency in Korean and Japanese would be desirable and a good level of English
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £26,000.00-£29,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Procurement: 1 year (preferred)
- Purchasing: 1 year (preferred)
Application deadline: 14/12/2022
