Procurement Officer - London, United Kingdom - chase recruitment group ltd

chase recruitment group ltd

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

To work within a defined procurement and financial control framework to ensure controls are in place and adhered to, in support of all procurement related processes.

Where required, with support, to take a lead on delivering the end-to-end procurement process for routine procurements and/or lead specific policy/system/training initiatives.

Work with the external procurement providers to ensure queries are dealt with efficiently and effectively. Work with internal and external customers to ensure queries are dealt with efficiently and effectively. To be the welcoming response to clients / contractorsand signposting them to the correct area of the Procurement Service."

Key Responsibilities:

Processing of supplier set up requests.
Support the commissioning of goods and services and the management of tendering processes and negotiations, including both revenue and capital procurement.
To provide excellent support for financial system modules, including Supplier Master record maintenance.
To support contract management processes, including catalogue maintenance, contract register and contract management system.
To provide information for contract spend and other management reports, as and when required.

Experience & Knowledge
Knowledge of how an Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Income Management System and Accounting to Reporting processes work.

Knowledge of specialist information systems and contract management systems by producing reports using multiple criteria and extract and reuse data in Microsoft Office products, data maintenance and manipulation.

Experience with procurement and supplies management within a a local authority or similar organisation

Successful track record in delivering high quality customer focused procurement and supplies services.

Demonstrable experience of managing Purchasing & Supplies departments including building staff capacity and capability.

Understanding of public procurement processes and financial transactions.