What you’ll be doing
as a Supply Chain Administrator
1. Provide support to the Supply Chain Inventory team on daily tasks.
2. Support expediting of supplier purchase orders to ensure the timely delivery of spares.
3. Monitor and manage the supply chain email inbox to ensure timely action and resolution to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
4. Create and maintain system master data.
5. Generic admin and data input duties.
6. Liaise with Operations Admin to provide insight of daily deliveries.
7. Support team with regular reporting requirements.
8. Processing of orders through SAP.
9. Ensuring all supplier arrears have an up-to-date ETA.
10. Liaising with Operations, Inbound Problem resolution, and working with suppliers to prevent recurrence.
11. Request order pull forwards where there is a predicted stock out before the next planned delivery.
12. Manage customer queries and complaints relating to spares, job orders/requirements.
13. Create and maintain material master data to ensure smooth supply chain operation.
14. Housekeeping of master data.
15. Work across the Supply Chain & Inventory Operations team to review Out of Hours call-out requests to understand the trigger and build in continuous improvement within this key process to support our SI3 commitments.
What you should bring to the role
16. Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
17. Passionate about understanding customers and their needs.
18. Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
19. Excellent project and time management skills.
20. Exceptional attention to detail.
21. Familiar with MS Office. (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
22. Organisation and Time Management.
What’s in it for you?
23. Hourly Pay rate: Range between £13.35 to £14.42 per hour.
24. Location: Didcot, Oxfordshire.
25. Length of assignment: 12 months.
26. Required Start date: 17/11/2025.
27. Hours: 36 hours per week.
28. Please note you will be on assignment at Thames Water via Pertemps.
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, background, and differences that each individual brings.
Our overarching 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.