Estimating Assistant
- Location:
- Stockport jobs
,
Cheshire jobs
- Salary:
- £16000
- Company:
- Search Consultancy
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 06/11/2009 14:06
- Job id:
- 45617101
- Contact:
- Debra Cohen
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/089853
My client, a leading supplier to major high street retailers are seeking an Estimating/Purchasing Assistant. Salary £18,000 Heaton Mersey, Stockport
Working with this growing and successful business you will be assisting the in the servicing of quotes to the sales department and day to day running of the estimating department. Duties will include:
Type and word-process various documents and electronic information.
Create financial and statistical tools and reports using spreadsheets.
Manage, organise, and update relevant data using database applications.
Communicate and provide information by relevant methods internally and externally to assist and enable organisational operations and effective service to connecting groups.
Analyse and interpret financial statistics and other data and produce relevant reports.
Finding the best price for the sales department
Providing quotations
Presenting statistical reports for senior management
Assisting with the purchasing of goods and negotiating the best prices with suppliers to tight deadlines
To apply you must be of graduate calibre, have advance IT skills in MS Word and Excel, and a knowledge of Access.
Ideally you will have knowledge of Sage and various bespoke databases
A degree would be advantageous, ideally in IT
Strong sense of customer service
Good organisational skills
Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills
Ability to communicate technical information to nontechnical audiences
Please send cv's to debra.cohen@search.co.uk (agy)