Job Description:
Purchasing Assistant (Theatres)
High Street Kensington- London (South Kensington Area)
Fantastic benefits
Full time (Possibility for some hybrid working)
Permanent
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
Role Overview
This business support position is a key role in Theatres but also the surrounding business. As a Purchasing Assistant, your responsibilities will include overseeing end-to-end P2P operations for Theatres, looking to make improvements to procedures and controls, no leakage of cost due to incorrect pricing and invoicing by suppliers. This role will also be required to carry out any other ad hoc duties or projects as requested by the Head of Supply Chain & Financial Control.
What You’ll Do:
1. Oversee & leading the whole P2P process for Theatres.
2. Ensure no leakage of cost due to incorrect pricing and invoices from Suppliers.
3. Working in collaboration with the Supply Chain team in ensuring timely delivery of all items by managing stakeholders’ expectations.
4. Overseeing the sale and return orders and ensure credits are received and processed.
5. Proactively seeking out opportunities to improve processes and systems.
6. To carry out any other ad hoc duties or projects as requested by the Head of Supply Chain
7. Oversee.
8. Ensure that BGUK Procurement Policy is adhered to.
9. To challenge and identify issues in existing procedures and implement changes where appropriate to support performance and compliance.
10. Driving operational improvements and conducting root cause analysis of customer dissatisfaction, analysing staff & system processes & procedures, investigating & proposing opportunities for training, development, or process improvements/enhancements to enhance the customer experience.
11. Provide root cause analysis of why suppliers are not paid on time and accurately, implement fixes and ensure appropriate monitoring of their success.
12. Identify where processes can be streamlined to realise cost / time efficiencies, proposing systems enhancements where applicable.
13. To proactively build and maintain strong working and supporting relationships with the P2P team and suppliers.
14. To monitor and record processing problems encountered by Theatres requisitioners and identify if they are caused by training, configuration, or catalogue issues, taking appropriate action to remove the same issues experienced going forward.
15. Actively assist in the creation of a continuous improvement environment ensuring key stakeholders’ involvement in decision making and a learn by doing culture at all levels of the business.
What you’ll bring:
16. Excellent Communication Skills
17. Ideally previous experience of invoicing
18. Experience of working in a similar role
19. Interpersonal skills
20. Previous experience of reconciling Stock
Why Bupa?
We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.
Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. We believe all our colleagues should be rewarded for their efforts. We offer a range of benefits to support both your physical and mental wellbeing such as:
21. 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
22. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
23. An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
24. Annual performance-based bonus as part of the Staff Bonus Scheme
25. Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
26. Various other benefits and online discounts