Purchasing & Inventory Coordinator

Ling Design is one of the UK’s longest established publishers of premium greetings cards with a heritage that stretches back to the 1950s. Today we supply hundreds of retailers throughout the UK and in 27 countries worldwide. We are also a leading supplier of greetings cards for the charity sector.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive purchasing professional within our procurement team team in Bath.

We are looking for an individual to work closely with the Production Manager to support forecasting and help ensure the on\-time supply of greetings cards and related components.

The role involves building an understanding of supplier capabilities, production capacity, and customer requirements, improving shipping efficiency, including container fill and scheduling, coordinating reprints and new launches, maintaining accurate and up\-to\-date system data and offering support across the department.

We are looking for someone who can ensure accuracy and clarity at all times, has strong Excel skills, is a great communicator with a methodical approach and great attention to detail.

Experience in procurement, buying, forecasting and/or stock level monitoring is essential, and experience in an FMCG environment would be advantageous.

If this exciting opportunity interests you please apply now!

Ling Design operates an equal opportunities policy to ensure that we do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, marital status, colour, race, religion, ethnic or national origin, age or disability when recruiting people or promoting existing employees.

Job Types: Permanent, Full\-time

Pay: From £31,000\.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress


• Company pension


• Health \& wellbeing programme


• Life insurance


• On\-site parking


• Private medical insurance


• Sick pay

• Bath BA2 3HE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

• Do you have experience in forecasting?

• Purchasing: 1 year (required)

• United Kingdom (required)

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