Procurement Support Co-ordinator

Tirlán, is a world-class food and nutrition co-operative, with a diverse portfolio of quality ingredients, leading consumer and Agri brands.

Tirlán owns leading brands such as Avonmore, Kilmeaden Cheese, Millac, Solmiko, Truly Grass Fed, Premier Milk, Wexford, mymilkman.ie and GAIN Animal Nutrition.

We nurture a talented team across Ireland, the US, MEA and China, delivering annual revenues of over €3 billion, and over 2,300 people to manage our network of 11 processing plants and 52 Agri branches. Our purpose is to nourish the world, while safeguarding our environment for future generations

Role Profile

A vacancy has arisen for the role of Procurement Support Co-Ordinator in Agribusiness leading to a Trainee Procurement Category Manager role. The role will play a key part in the end-to-end procurement to sales process including monitoring and control of fertiliser product category sales contracts, sales orders, procurement support and system reporting. 

Responsibilities

• Monitor customer sales contracts to ensure that they are validated and correspond to the actual customer sale agreement and comply with the agreed product listing and pricing guidance
• Manage the drawdown of customer sales contracts and liaise with logistics team to ensure customer service levels are met
• Monitor open customer Sales orders and take appropriate action to process and follow-up any issues
• Support the purchasing manager in the maintenance of new product master-data setups, supplier cost price updates, retail price updates and other related activities
• Raise central purchase orders as required from time to time for both consignment stock and general stock into branches
• Regularly run key sales and stock reports and highlight trends and issues that may need attention
• Monitor and manage the invoice error log for the fertiliser category on a weekly basis by resolving issues and preventing new items occurring
• Assist development and improvement of process and systems to ensure compliance and minimise risk
• Oversee regulatory reporting to Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Marine (DAFM)
• Liaise with key fertiliser category Suppliers to support the smooth running of product movements and procure to pay (P2P) process.
• Liaise with key internal Tirlán stakeholders including Agri procurement, Agri CSC, Sales teams, Logistics, Finance and IT

Requirements

• Strong PC skills particularly MS Office applications including Excel.
• SAP, Core (Point of Sale) and Business Intelligence (BI) systems knowledge desirable
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Knowledge of Fertiliser product category
• Excellent written, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Works well independently and within a support team environment
• A high level of initiative and motivation with the ability to adapt to change
• Proven ability in planning, time management and working to agreed timelines