Estimating & Purchasing Executive

Firmin Recruit are delighted to be working with an established manufacturing client based in the Aylesford area of Kent. My client is a well-established retail packaging manufacturer, who have been established for over 40 years. They employ over 100 personnel in the design, manufacture, and distribution of packing products, working with major global, blue-chip brands. Due to business expansion, my client is recruiting for a highly competent and motivated Estimating & Procurement Executive to join their established Estimating and Procurement team.

The Role: Reporting to the Estimating and Procurement Manager, the role will focus on providing a high level of technical expertise and competency within all areas of production and operations-based administration. The successful candidate will have experience within a production-based administrative role or similar in addition to possessing strong attention to detail.

Main Responsibilities:

• Receiving enquiries from Customer Service Executives and other internal personnel and creating estimates for potential jobs and tenders
• Raising official Works orders for production jobs using business management systems
• Sourcing and raising Purchase Orders for any material, consumables, items, and services required for production jobs
• Internal liaison with sales, QA, logistics, production, planning, and finance departments to collate requisite job information
• Managing all necessary logistics and warehousing for work in progress
• Input, record and update job data onto the business management systems
• Communicating and co-ordinating with suppliers via email/in writing etc
• Other duties deemed necessary to ensure smooth running of the technical order processing department including internal meetings.

Suitable Candidate:

• IT literate and fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite
• Ability to prioritise multiple tasks and work under strict timescales
• Previous experience of working within a technical field, ideally purchasing, and estimating
• Experience of working within the packaging sector would be advantageous

Benefits: 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays, Work Pension, Onsite parking, long service awards, employee discounts.

Hours: Monday - Friday 37.5 hours per week, between hours of 8 am - 5.30 pm with 1/2 hour lunch (option for 1 hour lunch with finish at 5.30 pm). The successful candidate will need to live within one hour commute of Aylesford, Kent and have access to their own transport.