R&d Operations Assistant

3 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Unilever Full time

**Job Title**:R&D Operations Assistant - Purchasing & Admin

**Location**:Leeds R&D

**BACKGROUND**

The Leeds R&D site is home to multiple teams within the Unilever Personal Care Business Group. Personal Care is a €10Bn+ business and a key growth driver for Unilever. The R&D teams at Leeds help to enable growth through developing superior products and innovation for our consumers globally.

This job is based at the Leeds R&D site and is part of the R&D Strategy & Operations team. The team provide support to enable smooth operation of the site & facilities for all employees situated at Leeds R&D.

**JOB PURPOSE**

The main responsibility of the job is to coordinate the creation of Purchase Orders & complete associated administrative activities on behalf of the R&D teams based at Leeds. Additionally the role holder will provide Admin support to a number of operational activities to support the wider team.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Purchasing**
- Creating Purchase Orders (PO’s) on behalf of all teams, ensuring PO’s have all the correct information and ensuring they progress through approvals in timely manner.
- Onboard new suppliers into appropriate systems as required.
- Tracking progress of PO’s and resolving any issues raised with relevant partners (Procurement, Supplier, System Helpdesk), and ensuring the requester is up to date with progress.
- Receipting of PO’s once goods are received and managing receipting with requestors on a regular basis to ensure effective closure of orders.
- Building and maintaining relationships with key suppliers, maintaining good customer service.
- Process invoices for associated PO’s
- Purchasing process & system SuperUser, become expert in the relevant processes & systems and operationally savvy in resolving problems
- Provide appropriate training on process & systems to team members, and keep up to date with all system &process updates and roll these out to relevant team members.

**Operational Admin Support**
- Manage stock for office supplies & equipment, including ordering new materials/equipment as required.
- Support Safety Leader with Safety data inputting & tracking as required.
- Provide admin assistance to Operations team and wider department as needed.

**ALL ABOUT YOU**

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

Education level: GCSE English and Maths or equivalent.

Relevant experience:

- Demonstrate ability to prioritise, multi-task, and act with speed & agility.
- Demonstrate communication with internal & external stakeholders in a professional manner with strong customer service.
- Experience in purchasing is preferable.

Key Skills:

- Digitally savvy, with high proficiency in using Microsoft tools (eg Outlook, Teams) & non-microsoft tools (eg SAP).
- High level of data accuracy & attention to detail.
- Strong & professional verbal and written communication.
- Strong organisational & problem solving skills.

STANDARDS OF LEADERSHIP
- Agility
- Personal Mastery
- Consumer & Customer Love

**NOTES**

**About Unilever**

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’

**What We Offer**

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience.

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