Procurement Coordinator £29,000 per annum plus bonus and fantastic benefits Based onsite at The Newt in Somerset offices Temporary 6 month contract View out products here Take a look at our website Our Procurement Coordinator In this role you will provide support to the Merchandising Manager with forecasting, ordering & maintaining accurate stock control within the central warehouse. Your day-to-day will include reviewing stock movements, raising purchase orders, communicating orders to suppliers and booking in deliveries with our warehouse team. A key part of your role will be the ongoing maintenance of forecasts from our hospitality departments, such as kitchens, bars, housekeeping and the various parts of our visitor attraction. You will need to regularly identify and sit with key stakeholders from each department to confirm their active product lists. Against these lists, you’ll use historical stock movements and knowledge of upcoming seasonal changes/events to predict usage and feed this into our orders for central stock holding. You’ll maintain shelf-life information for our food & drink products. Identifying and taking action early if products become high-risk or short-dated. Working with the retail and E-Com teams to track wastage and report this back to our Buying Team. For each order placed you’ll make sure the delivery is either booked in with our Goods in warehouse team, or pass on the contact details for our warehouse manager, for Suppliers to book a delivery slot. You’ll monitor the delivery calendar and chase with suppliers, any orders not delivered when expected. Key Responsibilities Manage Supplier relationships, including supplying POs and negotiating terms. Producing weekly stock movement reports. Working with Hospitality Team to forecast and manage stock across categories. Reviewing the order book and managing stock & deliveries according to rate of sale. Working with the goods in team and accounts team, to reconcile invoicing paperwork and request credit notes from suppliers where necessary. Monitoring of our delivery calendar to ensure all orders arrive in a timely manner, or are chased accordingly. Manage shelf-life information and minimise wastage. Ensuring that supplier and product information is regularly checked and kept up to date. What we can offer A positive workplace environment with opportunities to develop both personally and professionally. Stay in shape with complimentary use of our gym and wellbeing classes Look after your wellbeing with complimentary access to our Spa and swimming pools and our exclusive benefit of 50% off Spa Treatments. Enjoy shopping in both our shops on estate and online with 30% discount for all our colleagues and free delivery for any online purchases. Discover exclusive perks with our discounted hotel stays for staff, accompanied by a fantastic 30% discount at our restaurants. Complimentary garden membership for the Newt and our partner gardens including the Eden Project, Kew Gardens and The Lost Gardens of Heligan Complimentary meal whilst on shift, created using fresh produce from our estate by our dedicated staff food chefs We value your hard work and recognise your achievements through our colleague recognition programme “Newt Awards” with the opportunity to achieve a variety of amazing rewards including a complimentary Hotel Stay. Support from our Employee Assistance Programme for both yourself and your family What we're looking for Excellent Excel knowledge &40;experience with conditional formatting, IF functions, X/VLOOKUPs is essential&41; Previous experience with Sage X3 desirable Fantastic time management, with the ability to time block and distribute your time between multiple projects and focuses A good understanding of finance and the sales order / purchase order / invoice process. Experience within a retail, procurement or merchandising team dealing with consumer products Excellent people skills – the ability to work in harmony with other departments &40;finance, warehouse ops, buyers, producers&41; Experience with supplier relations and negotiation An understanding of warehouse ops and the goods in process of bringing product into the business INDAVR