Purchasing Coordinator
About Spicers Australia
Spicers is a national Company with offices and warehouses in every state and territory in Australia. We sell a wide range of products to the Print, Packaging and Visual Communications industries including paper, food and industrial packaging, labels, signage, vinyl, laminates and hardware for printing.
About this Position
This position of Purchasing Coordinator is based at national head office in Dandenong South and reports through to the Purchasing Manager. It is a full time and permanent position, working Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week from our Dandenong South head office. After a period of training, the Company may consider up to 2 days of work to be performed from home each week.
The primary function of this position is to support supply planning and ordering to ensure we have appropriate stock holdings in various brands and product lines to meet our sales requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Place stock purchase orders with suppliers
- Track and manage placed orders
- Check pricing and stock re-order quantities to make sure they meet management expectations
- Use of SAP system to complete work
- Regularly communicate with sales teams to provide updates about future orders and current stock holdings
- Regularly liaise with suppliers to place and trace orders
- Generate SAP reports and information about stock holdings, order quantities, goods in transit, pricing and other data to inform sales and supply decisions.
Skills and Experience
- Previous work experience in a similar role, ideally with a wholesale distributor.
- Ability to understand and work with numerical data such as pricing, volumes, and weights.
- Strong communication skills- verbal and written.
- SAP experience would be an advantage, but can be taught.
Remuneration and Benefits
- On the job training provided
- Ability to work from home 1-2 days per week (after training)
- Competitive base salary
- Exceptional company culture offering social, community and wellbeing programs.
Please apply through Seek and send your covering letter and resume. For any queries, please contact Jacqui on 0417 521 ***.