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SalaryWe are recruiting to a 6 month Fixed Term Contract for a Commercial Procurement Administrator.
The Commercial Procurement Team is a small and friendly, busy team. We deliver services to the whole organisation and operate in a very customer centric way, providing a good service to our internal and external stakeholders is very important to us. The role in the team will vary each day and you maybe updating the Procurement Pipeline and reaching out to internal stakeholders, managing the procurement mailbox and responding to queries where possible, assisting a stakeholder update the Contract Database, drafting supplier correspondence or collating information for KPI’s or audits or example. Although we have our general ‘business as usual’ we also receive a number of requests for information, advice or last minute requirements so we don’t always have a ‘standard day’ it can be quite varied.
The predicted start date for this role is June 2024.
The employee will be able to demonstrate the following experience and technical skills:
- Experience in a similar role; experience from a procurement team would be good but is not essential. This is more an admin/EA type of role.
- Advanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Experience of working with Purchase to Pay systems and Sage is advantageous but not essential
- Experience of working with e-procurement and contract management systems such as Bravo would be advantageous but not essential
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with senior stakeholders and work across organisational boundaries
- Strong sense of accountability
Personal attributes required
The role will require someone with the following personal attributes:
- Logical thought process
- Accuracy and ability to work to deadlines
- Be honest and trustworthy
- Be respectful
- Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Be flexible
- Demonstrate sound work ethics
- Have high attention to detail
- Ability to maintain confidentiality concerning all Nest documents
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work from home (or a different location)
- work compressed hours
- job share
