Purchasing / Procurement Officer
Posted 3 days ago by Certain Advantage
£27 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Stevenage
Summary: The Purchasing / Procurement Officer role at a leading Defence Organisation in Stevenage requires a background in procurement and proficiency in SAP. The position involves managing customer repairs and spares procurement, supplier assessment, and ensuring timely deliveries. The role offers a hybrid working arrangement with a duration of 6 months and potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Processing electronic and manual requisitions.
- Using SAP to raise requests for quotations (RFQ).
- Creating Excel spreadsheets to assess data for supplier selection.
- Raising purchase orders within SAP.
- Progressing orders to ensure on-time delivery to internal customers.
- Amending purchase orders based on changing delivery forecasts.
- Maintaining dialogue with internal customers for delivery forecasts.
- Holding and supporting business operational reviews.
- Liaising with Bought Ledger and vendors to resolve invoice queries.
- Data cleansing of SAP for accurate data collection.
- Quality assessment and measurement of suppliers.
- Distributing monthly reports to vendors with correct reason codes.
Key Skills:
- Proactive approach and flexible self-starter.
- IT literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook).
- Working knowledge of SAP is an advantage.
- Educated to basic secondary level (Maths, English to O level/GCSE/NVQ as a minimum).
- Effective communication skills for maintaining good relations with internal customers and external suppliers.
- Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines professionally.
Salary (Rate): £27/hour
City: Stevenage
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Purchasing / 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 / Procurement 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 manner