Julie Bradley

• Verify and maintain price, supplier information and delivery lead times for purchase requisitions before processing purchase orders.
• Process purchase orders efficiently, allocating them to the correct cost centre and G/L code and improving order turnaround time.
• Check order acknowledgements to ensure price, quantities, carriage, delivery dates match the purchase order and query if necessary.
• Monitor and maintain monthly delivery schedules over a 6-12 month period for key suppliers and core products to meet customer / production demand based on monthly/annual usage.
• Assist in managing safety stock levels, reducing the risk of understocking.
• Monitor open orders and run overdue delivery reports and chase suppliers to reduce delays to our production and warehouse departments.
• Liaised with internal departments for smoother operations and increased efficiency.
• Deliver timely resolution of invoice and receipting order queries and discrepancies by working with payable accounts, suppliers and end users.
• Weekly stock check to maintain stock levels for all non BOM maintained consumables and order accordingly.
• Support Quality Control and Warehouse departments by accurately processing returns on the MRP system and monitoring the resolution status with suppliers.
• Report to the Purchasing Lead to help maintain a smooth running Purchasing Department. Cover when the Lead is on leave and attend the daily morning Operations meetings.
• Maintain canteen supplies for workforce and cleaning supplies for our cleaner.
• Maintain office stationery supplies.
• Reconcile the departments monthly credit card statement providing invoices and receipts for all transactions.
• Assist with a mid-year stock take and end of year audited stock take by helping to manage the counters, imputing the counts into the MRP system and assisting with rectifying any stock discrepancies.
• Assist with other departments when short staffed such as Goods In by counting stock and booking in deliveries, picking production parts for production builds, working in Production on the Production Line.
• Request quotes from suppliers for new and bespoke products, issuing them with relevant drawings provided by our Research & Development department.
• Assist with running our In-House tuck shop.
• Provide weekly scheduled delivery reports to the Operations Leads detailing all goods due in the following week.
• Work towards 5 different objectives set by the Purchasing Lead / Operations Manager to complete within the year to achieve annual bonus scheme.
• Assist in meeting the purchasing departments annual cost savings target set for the year of 45k.
• Monitor all sub-contractor purchase orders and liaise with the Warehouse to ensure all subcon free issue products are dispatched in time for suppliers to complete our order requirements to meet our required delivery date.
• Liaise with our Logistics Administrator for all Imports due in from International suppliers.
• Export weekly Intercompany Sales Order reports for the Operations Manager / Production Lead.

Partner in the family Stamp and Postcard Collectors Business. Initially selling at collectors fairs, communicating face to face with customers, handling cash and cheques and establishing a large customer clientele.

Gradually moved over to eBay selling online only. Became a sole trader running the business single handed when my father retired in 2018. Responsibilities include:

• Purchasing stock through auctions and private customers.
• Pricing stock within a very competitive market.
• Scanning stock and creating eBay listings accurately.
• Maintaining over 20,000 eBay shop listings with up to date stock categories, promotions, offers.
• Processing invoices and posting out orders daily.
• Communicating with customers through telephone, email, eBay messages.
• Managing queries, refunds, postal losses.
• Ordering and maintaining stationery supplies.
• Establishing business relationships with repeat buyers.

Worked as an Administrator at both their Plymouth offices located in Ivybridge and Devonport Dockyard. Duties were

• Answering high volumes of telephone and email enquires both internally and externally.
• Processing orders, invoices and delivery notes.
• Processing over 25 electricians' weekly timesheets.
• Booking of compulsory Health & Safety training courses.
• Ordering and Maintaining Stationery Supplies.
• Opening and Distributing Incoming Mail.

Worked at Head Office starting out as a YTS trainee and worked up to Purchase Ledger Clerk. Main duties were

• Filing and Photocopying.
• Answering and transferring internal and external telephone calls.
• Opening and distribution of incoming mail.
• Franking all outgoing mail in time for daily collection.
• Greeting clients for meetings.
• Managing over 40 supplier accounts.
• Creating new supplier accounts.
• Processing over 100 purchase invoices daily ensuring complete accuracy and readiness for weekly payment runs.
• Processing credit notes from suppliers.
• Matching delivery notes with corresponding invoices and checking for discrepancies.
• Reconciling suppliers monthly statements.
• Liaising with warehouse staff at all 19 depots regarding delivery queries.
• Liaising with breweries regarding invoice queries.
• Petty cash.
• Ordering and maintaining stationery supplies.