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SalaryWhat you’ll be doing as a Supply Chain Compliance Administrator
- Proactively process all new requests and changes to vendor master data to meet SLAs and KPIs, ensuring they meet the control checks. These include:
- VAT registration and length of trading. (HMRC)
- Health and safety. (Achilles)
- Financial health. (D&B)
- Risk Management.
- Bank account verification.
- Maintain data held in SAP, ensuring records are accurate and up to date including vendors, catalogues, material masters, and service masters.
- Manage the annual refresh of data held in the vendor master along with any periodical self-cert requirements e.g. Achilles, MSA, cyber security.
- Track, investigate and action alerts generated from D&B and C6 then notify the relevant parties as appropriate.
- Make effective decisions based on a mixture of analysis, experience and judgment.
- Take the initiative across all aspects of the job and consistently look for ways to improve personal performance as well as that of their peers and direct reports.
- Participate in ad-hoc projects as required where a master data viewpoint is required.
Base Location: Reading
Working Pattern or hours: 36 Hours
What you should bring to the role
- Strong administration experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Good Excel skills, particularly VLOOKUP's, pivot tables.
- Process-driven but with the ability to challenge and flex.
- Effective negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Understanding of the importance of risk and mitigation and being able to challenge.
- Experience in risk roles.
- SAP ERP Central Component - particularly the supply chain module.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary up to £35,000 pa.
- Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
- Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
- Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
- Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.
Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.
Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.
But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?
Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.
We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.
Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
Find out more about working at Thames Water.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
