Purchasing Officer

**About the business**

With over decades of electrical and engineering industry excellence, our company is a recognized market leader with the motto of excellence in delivering our customer's solutions.

Established in 1933, Omron has about 38,000 employees worldwide, working to provide products and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

We specialize in a wide range of Automation products and services such as Robotics, AI-based controllers for the IoT era, Machine Vision and Image processing, PLC and SCADA systems, Safety solutions, Advanced Motion Control, Sensing, and Switchboard Solutions, and Electronic Components. We service a wide range of End-Users, OEMs, Contractors, Wholesalers, System Integrators, Switchboard Builders, and Consultants. Having a wide and diverse product range, we are able to offer the Australasian market a complete industrial electrical and automation turn-key package. Our customer base covers all major industries including Food and Beverage, Packaging, Manufacturing, Mining, and Infrastructure projects.

Our strength lies in providing quality solutions, backed by technically superior specialists, each of whom represents the business's passion for customer satisfaction, adaptiveness to change, energy, integrity, commitment to performance, and consistency.

**About the role**

Omron Electronics is a dynamic, multinational company, specialising in Industrial Automation.

We seek a conscientious, detailed, and self-motivated individual for the role of Purchasing Officer. The role involves ensuring the company’s purchasing of stock is accurate and delivery occurs in a timely manner.

**To fulfill the task the following duties will need to be adhered to**:

- Monitoring our Supply base quotes, purchases, and deliveries to obtain lead times
- Generate purchase orders and liaise with suppliers to ensure timely deliveries
- Review and interpret sales performance trends, in order to obtain accurate forecasts using the Forecasting and BI tool
- Review stock levels and work with the marketing and sales team in order to reduce overstocked items
- Review customer's back-order reports and prioritize back-ordered item's arrival
- Ensuring all orders and inbound receipts are processed accurately and on time to meet business and customer KPIs
- Reporting to Management the status of deliveries and related issues
- Provide price and availability on request
- Assisting product manager with reviewing and monitoring stock levels to ensure uninterrupted stock replenishment
- Entering data into order portals and customer relationship management systems
- Review and analyses inventory requirements
- Following up on outstanding purchasing orders from vendors
- Contribute actively to continuous improvement, streamlining, and review of processes & procedures
- Ad-hoc reporting tasks instructed by the direct manager

**Requirements**:

- An eye for detail and being able effectively to communicate with foreign offices
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent time management skills and ability to priorities
- A genuine interest in the electrical components Industry
- Computer literacy involves the proficient use of Microsoft Office products (Word & Excel)
- Ability to work proactively and with a high degree of accuracy
- A strong efficient team player with the willingness to be hands-on when required
- Strong administrative skills organized and good attention to detail
- Experience in the role is an advantage but not essential as you will be trained in the role
- Punctual and reliable

**Benefits**

**What we offer you**:

- A career opportunity with one of the most respected companies in the Automation Industry
- Potential performance bonus
- The development opportunities