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Junior Procurement Officer

Northumberland

37.5 per week, full-timeProcurement

Salary: £200 - £200

Overview

Circa £200 day rate

Contract: 12-month interim

Working Pattern: Monday–Friday

Axi Recruitment are supporting our client in the recruitment of a Junior Procurement Officer to join their Central Procurement team on an interim basis. In this role, you’ll help maximise value from third-party contracts, minimise risk, and ensure full compliance with established policies and processes.

 

Job Details

Reporting to the Head of Procurement, the key responsibilities and duties will be:

Working with the business and Procurement Officers to source and procure a wide range of required goods and services, ensuring optimal value for money within defined service and quality criteria.

Ensuring that EPUKI procurement processes are followed to seek and evaluate competitive tenders and proposals for the supply of goods and service, including negotiating with suppliers on all commercial and contractual matters to achieve optimal levels of value versus risk.

Identifying opportunities to add improvements to the “bottom line” through cost savings or process change, whilst promoting continual improvement in all aspects of the Procurement function

Managing supplier relationships and term contracts, whilst co-ordinating multiple stakeholder interfaces across EPUKI to ensure a consistent and collaborative approach.

Identifying and implementing supplier improvement actions, managing 360-feedback processes, resolving contractual and supplier disputes, and adhering to all company and departmental standards, policies, and procedures.

Developing and maintaining strong and positive working relationships with internal stakeholders, ensuring that requirements are understood and addressed, whilst seeking to promote the Procurement function as a positive enabler and an integral partner to the EPUKI business

Operating and maintaining required systems to support and improve the Procurement function.

Working closely with the HSEQ teams to ensure that the EPUKI supply chain is safe and delivers quality goods and services.

Undertake other procurement and supply chain tasks that are required from time to time.

Qualifications

• GCSE (level 5 or above) or A levels (grade C or above) in Maths & English (essential).
• Qualified to degree level, or equivalent in a relative discipline (desirable).
• CIPS qualified at a minimum Level 4 (desirable).

Experience

• Some working experience procurement or supply chain experience in comparable level role (essential).
• Awareness of e-tendering systems (essential).
• Basic knowledge of procurement life cycle and value creation through negotiation and contract delivery (essential).
• Basic understanding of procurement principles, general and contract law (desirable).
• Basic awareness of legislation which may impact Procurement (desirable).
• Experience of IFS or equivalent ERP system is desirable but not essential (desirable)

Behaviours

• Pro-active, flexible, resilient and motivated with the ability to see things through to completion.
• Proven analytical skills including the ability to gather, interpret and summarise effectively complex data.
• Good influencing, communication and relationship management skills.
• Ability to recognise opportunities and work with stakeholders and peers to deliver.
• Ability to work with Procurement Officers to project manage initiatives, tracking and ensuring delivery against key milestones.
• Strong administration and organisation skills.
• Ability to identify commercial and contract risks and seek guidance on how to manage appropriately.
• Competent IT/IS skills (e.g. MS Office).

Axi Recruitment Ltd are a professional recruitment consultancy delivering high-quality recruitment services to our clients nationwide. We regularly receive a large number of applicants to our job advertisements, which impacts our ability to provide individual feedback. If you have not received a response to your application within 14 days of submission, we regret to say that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.