Purchasing Assistant Apprenticeship

Main duties:

Deal with all telephone enquiries in a prompt and efficient manner. Collect and organise sustainability questionnaires from vendors, the verify environmental credentials of suppliers (e.g., certifications, waste policies), and maintain the supplier sustainability risk register. Liaise with Contracts, Production and Warehouse departments to ensure all orders that are manufactured and delivered meet customers’ requirements. Advising the Customer Services Supervisor and Territory Manager of any issues. Ensure back-order reports are run daily and dealt with. Liaise with customers regarding all price discrepancies. Assist with queries from Accounts department Contact the transport department regarding shipment information. Co-ordinate slow-moving stock. Manage all standing orders, existing and expiring. Liaise with the external sales team. Log any complaints or returns in 24 hours. Dealing with all matters with the exception of ‘quality’ issues – providing all information on complaints relating to quality with the QC Manager. Help draft sustainability bulletins, posters, and internal newsletters, organise sustainability training sessions or workshops for staff, and coordinate sustainability awareness events (e.g., Earth Day, Green Week).

Training:
The learner will be studying Procurement and Supply Assistant Level 3. Online tutor meetings and regular day release to West Suffolk College as part of a blended learning approach. Functional skills will be studied if equivalent qualifications are not held. The apprentice will also benefit from Carbon Literacy Training - providing an awareness of the carbon costs and impacts of everyday activities and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions on an individual, community and organisational basis. 

Training Outcome:

The opportunity to obtain a permanent role.

Employer Description:
Established in 1988, Unisurge is a trusted manufacturer and supplier of custom procedure packs, dressing packs, medical disposable and theatre products for health care professionals.  Unisurge also offers a broad range of sterile drapes, gowns and supplementary operating theatre products. The contents of each of our packs have been practitioner specified to meet the requirements of all modern surgical procedures. One of the largest custom built Ethylene Oxide sterilisation chambers in Europe gives Unisurge the ability to deliver unrivalled sterility for all our products ensuring a reduction in site infections and fluid contamination for the patients and medical staff that we are proud to serve. Technology and innovation is at the heart of everything in the business with rigorous recycling and sustainability practices and one of the largest solar electric provisions in the county. Linked to a significant investment in Information Technology, we provide a proven and trusted distribution network. Unisurge also maintains its own fleet of delivery vehicles and is able to guarantee that sterile packs arrive at their destination on time and in optimum condition. Surgical teams can be confident that all the necessary components for a procedure will be supplied, to their specification, in a sterile pack, ready for immediate use.

Working Hours :
Monday - Friday, between 9:00-17:00.

Skills:
Communication skills,IT skills,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Team working,Attention to detail