Sales and Purchasing Coordinator (finish at 12 on Fridays)

Location: MK11

Salary: £35,000

Hours: 8am – 5pm Monday – Thursday, and 8am – 12pm on Friday

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Are you the person who keeps everything moving, knows exactly where every order is, and gets a small thrill from a purchase order that matches perfectly? Then this could be your job.

Who We Are

Universal Science has been making custom parts from high-tech materials for over 24 years, mostly for customers in electronics and electric vehicles. We’ve also built Materials Direct, an online platform where customers upload a drawing, get an instant price, and have their part made within 24 hours and shipped anywhere in the world. We’re small enough that you’ll know everyone and growing fast enough that there’s always something new.

The Role

You’ll look after orders from start to finish. That means:

• Handling customer enquiries and quotes

• Raising sales and purchase orders in Sage 50

• Buying materials from our suppliers at the right price

• Keeping an eye on stock

• Booking UK and overseas shipments with our freight partners

• Issuing Certificates of Conformance

• Sorting it out when a delivery goes sideways

Some days are calm. Some aren’t.

What You’ll Need

• Around two years using Sage 50 Accounts Professional for quotes, sales orders and purchase orders

• Experience buying materials and arranging deliveries, including imports and exports

• Confidence in Outlook, Excel and Word

• The kind of brain that can juggle several things without dropping any

• GCSE English and Maths, or equivalent

It would be lovely, but not essential, if you’ve worked in engineering or manufacturing, can read an engineering drawing, or know your way around ISO 9001.

Your Hours

8am – 5pm Monday – Thursday, and 8am – 12pm on Friday, with a 30-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks a day.

What You Get

• From £35,000, plus a discretionary bonus when the company does well

• 22 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with three days kept for the Christmas shutdown

• Pension that puts in 1% more than the legal minimum

• Real training and development

• Cycle to work scheme

• Free parking

• Free tea and coffee

• Employee of the Year wins a trip abroad, which beats a box of Celebrations

You may have experience in the following: Sales and Purchasing Coordinator, Sales Administrator, Purchasing Administrator, Purchasing Coordinator, Buyer, Procurement Coordinator, Sales Order Processor, Sales Support Coordinator, Order Processing Administrator, Supply Chain Coordinator, Logistics Coordinator, Sage 50 Administrator, etc.