Procurement Assistant

Wales, United Kingdom

1/10/2025

Working at Freudenberg: "We will wow your world!" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments.

Freudenberg Flow Technologies is a global provider of critical sealing and connector solutions, niche products and services to the global energy market — including oil and gas, renewables and alternatives. Our strengths in material science, application knowledge, design capabilities and manufacturing capacity, combined with our differentiated product portfolio, are supported by our focus on providing the highest level of customer service. Our employees serve a range of customers including oil and gas production companies, OEMs and engineering and service companies.

Some of your Benefits

Diversity & Inclusion: We focus on providing an inclusive environment and recognize our diversity contributes to our success.

Easily Reachable: Easy, low-stress access by car or public transport.

Personal Development: We offer a variety of trainings to ensure you can develop in your career.

Safe Environment: We strive to ensure safety remains a top priority, and provide a stable environment for our employees.

Sustainability & Social Commitment: We support social and sustainable projects and encourage employee involvement.

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Freudenberg Flow Technologies Ltd.

You support our team as

Procurement Assistant

Responsibilities

• Raise raw material purchase orders according to the requirements of the ERP.
• Send out RFQ to Supplier Base and if necessary negotiate price and delivery.
• In conjunction with other team members identify improvement activities within purchasing / material functions to improve efficiency with department paying particular attention to stock reduction, supplier lead reductions and stock availability.
• Share in departmental objectives and initiatives.
• To provide input to production meetings to ensure material availability in support of production requirements.
• Execute the sourcing process and manage ERP transactions.
• Use the ERP system in an optimal way to maximise internal transactional efficiency and minimise total costs, adopting ‘best practice’ and contributing to their improvement.
• Participate in business reviews with the suppliers / customers ensuring that both suppliers and internal requirements are being met.
• Support material quotations when necessary and other duties within the department.
• Address day-to-day challenges as they arise.
• Work additional hours if required within the business.
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of previous experience in a manufacturing procurement role.
• Good IT skills required including knowledge of Excel and ERP systems required.
• Demonstrate effectiveness in teamwork and communications in a manufacturing organisation with procurement, suppliers, manufacturing assembly operations and engineering.
• Able to make effective decisions and to work within tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of various manufacturing and assembly processes with experience in engineering and advantage.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Good people skills.
• Must be customer focused and have a sound appreciation of internal and external customers.
• Must be proactive, methodical and systematic in approach.
• Results driven - must be able to set, monitor and appropriately manage the achievement of own targets.
• Approachable and supportive, able to build and maintain collaborative productive relationships.
• Ideally a member of CIPS.
• Educated to GCSE standard including Maths and English A - C.
• A knowledge of the Company’s products & markets would be a distinct advantage.
  
  

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.