Procurement Assistant
- Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
- Salary: £19.00 - 21.50 per hour
- Category
- Sector: Professional Services
- Contract type Contract
- Consultant: Scarlet Wilson
- 12-month contract
- Remote working
- £19 - £21.50 p/h
- 37.5 hrs per week
Our client are a leading engineering and design consultancy that specialise in projects across the infrastructure sector.
They currently require the services of a Procurement Assistant to join their procurement team to support in-country procurement members, other in-country stakeholders, and GSSC procurement in the P2P processes.
Role accountabilities:
• Assist in the resolution of complex/language-dependent issues
• Support to Accounts Payable for PO-related invoicing issues
• Support for internal users Supplier/PR/PO
• Change Management/support for suppliers transitioning to Purchase Orders
• Builds relationships through multiple stakeholder channels to provide support.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and peers to leverage knowledge, resources and ensure consistency, and share best practices.
• Working with equivalents in Accounts Payable to resolve purchasing holds and other issues
• Working with equivalents in the DtR team to resolve purchasing holds and other issues
• Support Direct and Indirect Procurement to maintain purchasing documents (controls)
Key Shared Accountabilities:
• Assisting with the CWK process.
• Monitoring of DtR Mailbox for notifications of new CWKs and extensions.
• Updating of CWK listing.
• Raising CWK orders for new CWKs & increasing/adjusting existing orders, as & when required – rate increases/reductions.
• Assisting with setting CWK Override rates.
• Monitoring of failed receipt reports on a weekly basis.
• Dealing with queries & resolutions in respect of CWK timesheet amendments/corrections.
• Assisting AP in resolving issues with CWK invoices.
• Assisting with offline CWK processes.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role, you will need to:
• Demonstrate experience working in a procurement setting under a large complex matrix organization (ideally within a source-to-invoice P2P environment).
• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams around a common purpose.
• Show experience being agile, motivated, with good time management skills, and a confident communicator who can build strong relationships.
• Experienced working with Microsoft’s suite of tools and services and an ERP. Procurement qualifications are highly desirable.
For more information, please contact Scarlet Wilson.