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Purchasing / Procurement Officer
Job Posted: 12 hours ago
Salary: £ 27 - 27 / Hour
Job Type: Contract
Location: Stevenage
Expire in: a month
Job Description
World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Procurement Officer.
The role does require a Procurement background and understanding of SAP.
Rate: £27.00 per hour
Overtime Rate: Hours worked over the standard 37 hours per week, will be paid at ‘time and a quarter’
Location: Stevenage
Hybrid / Remote working: The role will be 1 or 2 days a week in the office and the rest remote
Duration: 6 Months with very likely extension. Contracts are often ongoing and long-term thereafter.
IR35 status: Inside IR35 (Umbrella)
Interview process: One stage video interview
Purchasing Officer Job Description:
Focal point for working with the CSS Spares and Repairs Team in the organisation and the management of customer repairs and spares procurement based upon the requests made by internal project teams.
Supplier assessment, adherence to open order books, supplier communications to ensure on time deliveries, communication/solutions provision for delayed deliveries and measuring/feedback on supplier performance.
Responsibilities
Purchasing
• Responsibilities include processing of electronic and manual requisitions.
• Use of SAP to raise request for quotations (RFQ)
• Creating Excel spread sheets to assess the data to aid supplier selection process.
• Raising of purchase orders within SAP.
• Progressing of orders to ensure on time delivery to the internal customers.
• Purchase order amendment in line with changing delivery forecasts post order acknowledgment.
• Maintain dialogue with internal customer to ensure topical delivery forecast are maintained.
• Holding & supporting business operational reviews
Administration
• Liaise with both Bought Ledger and vendors to resolve Invoice queries and enable timely and accurate payments.
• Data cleansing of SAP to ensure accurate data collection.
• Quality assessment and measurement of suppliers. Distribution of monthly reports to vendors and ensuring correct reason codes are annotated, enabling accurate reports for delivery and quality purposes.
Skillet/experience required:
• Proactive approach flexible self-starter
• IT Literate - Must be able to use Microsoft Office (Word; Power Point; Excel; Outlook) to a proficient level. (A working knowledge of SAP is an advantage.)
• Education: Educated to basic secondary level: (Maths, English to O level/GCSE/NVQ as a minimum)
• Ability to effectively communicate and maintain good relations with both internal customers and external suppliers.
• Ability to work under pressure to deadlines in a professional mannerBefore You Apply
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