Purchasing Officer (India Based)
- Freelance
- General (Remote)
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Independent Contractor Perks
- HMO Coverage for eligible locations
- Permanent work from home
- Immediate hiring
- Steady freelance job
- 15 days paid leave
- AU Holiday pay
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