Job Overview
We are currently recruiting a Procurement Specialist to join our Renewals and Logistics team. In this role, you will be required to expedite supplier purchase orders to ensure timely delivery of spares, identify and escalate potential problems in the supplier base before they impact service levels.
Key Responsibilities:
* Expedite supplier purchase orders to ensure timely delivery of spares
* Identify and escalate potential problems in the supplier base before they impact service levels
* Ensure orders are placed with suppliers that are optimized to deliver availability of spares, minimize inventory, and avoid obsolescence risk
* Prompt action on order exceptions, ensuring forecast, planned stockholding, and ordering profile are all correct
* Analysis of data to support reporting for insight into inventory and ordering trends to drive process and system change requests
* Act as the first point of contact for internal and external customers, delivering high levels of customer satisfaction
Required Skills and Qualifications
* Supplier or Inventory management experience
* Data analytics skills to provide business insight and reporting
* Excel and Microsoft Access skills to support data manipulation
* Demonstrable problem-solving skills
* Experience of working closely with other departments and teams, removing all silo activity
* Strong communication skills
* Experience of active role within projects
* Master data management
* Data interrogation, analysis, and presentation
Benefits
* Competitive salary
* 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with length of service
* 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 well-being
Why Choose Us?
We're the UK's largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It's a big job and we've got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.
Learn more about our purpose and values