Procurement Assistant – COM/MT/PROCASS15
Job Posted: 21 August 2024
Job Updated: 21 August 2024
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Job Title: Procurement Assistant
Function: Commercial
Location: Leeds
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £25,972 with potential to rise to £30,555 over 3 years
Closing Date: 4th September 2024
We have a great opportunity for a Procurement Assistant within our Commercial Diagnostic team.
The Procurement Assistant will work as an integral member of the category teams, ensuring the procurement processes are managed within identified KPIs. They will support the delivery of the end-to-end procurement process for our customers/stakeholders, working to always deliver a high level of customer service to all stakeholders ensuring that relationships and processes are managed effectively allowing overall targets to be achieved.
Every day you will …
1. Achieve specific procurement goals or provide support to others while following established procurement systems and protocols Explore and develop a strong understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate theirpotential impact on, or usefulness to, the organisation.
2. Gather and report on information on existing contract performance and provide as input to the new contract process.
3. Carry out simple contract management tasks.Conduct research using primary data sources and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends.
4. Prepare moderately complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for reports.
5. Extract relevant data from information provided by others and input it into spreadsheets or standard formats.
6. Develop working knowledge of the organization’s policies and procedures and of regulatory codes and codes of conduct relevant to own work, adhering to mandatory procedures to ensure own work is undertaken to the required standards.
7. Support stakeholder engagement by arranging actions, meetings, and events.
8. Collect and collate information on the key cost drivers, market dynamics and issues, areas of innovation, and alternative suppliers for more senior colleagues to provide solid market information for decision making.
9. Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries and investigating and resolving customer problems.
What can we offer you?
We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:
10. Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
11. We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
12. 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
13. We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
14. A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
15. Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
16. Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
17. 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
18. Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.