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Purchasing Officer (India Based)

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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Strong understanding of Purchasing principles, Experience with Purchasing systems preferred, Analytical problem-solving skills, Proficient in data entry, Fluent in Hindi and English.

Key responsabilities:

  • Manage Purchase Orders accurately and promptly
  • Communicate and follow up with suppliers
  • Track delivery dates and monitor changes
  • Onboard and train new suppliers
  • Collaborate with Planning and Shipping Teams
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501 - 1000 Employees
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Job description

This is a remote position.

Job Highlights
  • Full-time
  • Permanent work from home
  • Monday to Friday
  • 9am-6pm NSW (6:00 AM to 3:00 PM PHT) with one hour unpaid lunch and 2 15 mins paid break

Role Purpose

Responsible for ensuring that Purchase Orders are raised, approved, and modified in a complete, accurate and timely manner. The Purchasing Officer is expected to liaise with suppliers across the business to align the purchasing process with sales objectives and overall business strategy. A big part of the job is doing administrative work in the Purchase Order System, so being quick with systems will be helpful.

Responsibilities
  • Receive planned orders from Planning Team
  • Communicate orders to supplier for review.
  • Email Purchase Orders (POs) to supplier as required (including batching).
  • Follow up Suppliers to confirm Purchase Orders if not confirmed within 2 business days.
  • Communicate order changes to Buying/Planning Teams e.g. delivery date, quantity, price, incorrect Make to Order specs.
  • Review loading plans to ensure they fill container.
  • Escalate loading plans that do no fill container to Planning Team.
  • Track changes to planned delivery dates and Lead Time by following up suppliers on a weekly basis.
  • Run ad hoc reports to monitor Purchase Orders and new products.
  • Review shipping marks.
  • Approve shipping marks.
  • Follow up shipping arrangements to ensure suppliers have made booking with Freight Forwarder at least three weeks before the planned shipping date.
  • Communicate booking issues to the Shipping Team.
  • Provide weekly update to business with any expected changes on order due dates.
  • Contact retail/store teams when a customer order cannot be fulfilled.
  • Review cancelled customer orders.
  • Communicate cancelled orders to supplier.
  • Review reports from warehouse team, communicating negative variances to supplier.
  • Request credit notes from negative variance in warehouse report.
  • Pass to AP any suppliers' credit notes.
  • Review and approve invoices for payment.
  • Onboard new suppliers into Colladium.
  • Provide training to new suppliers on how to maintain our orders in Colladium.
  • Ensure supplier KPIs are met.
  • Create dispatch advice.
  • Receive shipping matrix updates from shipping team & Send them to supplier to ensure they book with the correct Freight forwarder.
  • Contact supplier to facilitate release of container as required in case of payment issues based on shipping team & AP's advice.
  • Liaising with Shipping Team to coordinate consolidation of shipments e.g. India Homewares, but consolidation will be managed by Shipping Team with Freight forwarder.
  • Action Cancellations initiated by Customers.
  • Action Cancellations initiated by the company.
  • Action Cancellations initiated by Supplier.

  • Strong understanding of Purchasing principles and processes.
  • Experience with Purchasing systems (preferred).
  • Analytical and could solve purchasing and inventory-related problems.
  • Strong data entry skills.
  • Hindi and English language proficiency.
  • Proactive, highly motivated, and flexible.
  • Highly organized.
  • Experienced with MS Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook.


Benefits
  • 15 days paid leave
  • AU Holiday pay 


Required profile

Experience

Industry :
Human Resources, Staffing & Recruiting
Spoken language(s):
EnglishHindiEnglish
Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory.

Other Skills

  • Verbal Communication Skills
  • Physical Flexibility
  • Microsoft Office
  • Problem Solving
  • Organizational Skills
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Self-Motivation

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