Job description
Birdie Advisory is a growing UAE-based consultancy supporting a portfolio of clients with strategic, marketing, creative and operational services. We’re looking for an organised, detail-driven Purchasing Co-ordinator to join our team and keep our clients’ orders placed, chased and recorded accurately. This is a fully home-based role in the UAE, working UK-aligned hours.
Key responsibilities:
- Raise purchase orders at the right quantities and prices and send them to suppliers.
- Chase deliveries in line with our client’s production plan and keep their planning team informed.
- Action the centralised purchasing inbox; day-to-day supplier contact by phone and email.
- Keep supplier records, order acknowledgements and the purchasing system accurate and up to date.
- Monitor set stock items and run the re-order process.
- Log delivery issues, chase suppliers for a fix and escalate where needed.
- Support supplier reviews with the paperwork and data behind them.
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 11:00am–8:00pm Dubai time including a one-hour break, during an initial training period of around three months, to match UK business hours. After training and sign-off there is scope for flexible hours, including more UAE-friendly hours, subject to business needs and client agreement.
Skills
Desired skills
- Purchasing administration or order-processing experience; manufacturing a plus
- Raising purchase orders and chasing supplier deliveries
- Accurate, organised and good with numbers
- Confident written and spoken English for supplier phone and email contact
- Working to tight deadlines with several orders on the go
- Microsoft Excel and ERP / purchasing systems
- Positive, proactive and dependable
