Purchasing Officer

Pact Group’s Contract Manufacturing Division manufactures across several operational sites and supplies a wide range of homecare and Personal-Care categories to all the major retailers and global FMCG brand owners. This role will be based at  our new site at Horsley Park.

About this opportunity

Bring your Purchasing experience to this role and manage our overseas procurement and day to day materials coordination for this $130 m portfolio. With experience in a busy manufacturing environment and knowledge of import documentation and managing freight forwarding and shipping contacts, this is a role where you will thrive! 

Highly motivated with a drive to succeed, the Purchasing Officer will be responsible for monitoring and replenishment of packaging and raw materials on a timely basis for our Personal Care business.

A key member of the Supply Chain team, specifically you will manage and assist in contract and supplier administration, working collaboratively with internal departments and vendors to ensure orders and stock are delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner.

This is a great opportunity to take the next step in your career with a multi-national, where there is career scope and growth.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Monitoring  stock levels and pro-actively identify purchasing requirements.
• Running relevant SAP reports to action rescheduling and cancellations of PO’s
• Occasional negotiation of terms/pricing.  Arrange quotations as required and process invoices for import and local purchasing.
• Participating in cycle meetings to ascertain production, NPD and customer requirements
• Identifying areas for improvement and implement new processes within the purchasing function
• Adequately managing and reviewing excess/obsolete stock levels
• Ensuring suppliers are adhering to performance levels. 
• Liaising with the accounts team to coordinate supplier payments schedule/agreements

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Visible and demonstrated commitment to safety in the workplace, “Toward Zero Harm
• Tertiary Qualifications in Supply Chain/Finance or related discipline is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Excel – Intermediate) and SAP is essential
• Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
• Can-do attitude, a deep sense of ownership and an unflinching desire to see a task through to finish
• Excellent communication (verbal and written, able to adapt to audience)
• Strong analytical capability with high attention to detail and accuracy

Understanding of production planning, manufacturing lead times, production capacity and limitations would be advantageous or a desire to move your career in this direction

About us

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan. 

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.