Procurement Officer

Jackson Hogg Procurement division are delighted to be exclusively partnering with a Scientific business in County Durham on the appointment of a Procurement Officer to join their team. This role can offer £21,973 as a starting salary and will be based on site 5 days per week.

This is a full time and permanent role joining in a period of significant growth working within a Procurement team made up of 4 people.

**The Role**:

- To follow, promote and enforce relevant SOPs, Job Aids, and Company policies and procedures
- Assisting in writing Job Aids and SOP’s to support the department’s training and development needs where required.
- Placement of purchase orders with suppliers for stocked items and raw materials
- Placement of consumable orders
- Expediting of stock orders from suppliers
- Assisting in data cleansing of all obtains and wholesale lines on NAV, ensuring that descriptions are uniform within product ranges
- Keeping all product pricing up to date on NAV
- Dealing with any product queries that may arise with either the description or pricing
- Maintaining NAV with up to date pricing and expiry data. Ensuring the system has the most up to date information at all times
- Assisting in opening up new supplier accounts on NAV in conjunction with the Quality Assurance and Finance teams
- Running the Requisition Worksheets on NAV for Wholesale, Obtains, Raw Materials, Dispensary and order required products maintaining inventory levels on a daily basis
- Look to identify product lines that should be stocked due to high volumes of orders, but also analyse stock movements to ensure that slow moving stock is removed from stock holding where possible
- Working with the Finance team to resolve invoice queries pertaining to all stock lines, consumables, and raw materials
- Working with Warehouse staff, store men and goods inwards to resolve any query that affects the business
- Assisting in supplier investigations when they arise either by the raising of a credit or a deviation.
- Maintaining purchase order files within the department, and ensure that they are archived regularly
- Working with the Quality and Technical Departments on queries or sourcing of alternative products
- Identifying possible items that could be resourced from more cost effective suppliers, documenting and logging these savings to report each month

**Person Specification**
- Confident dealing with managers and employees at all levels
- Experience of partnering diverse teams across multiple sites
- Comfortable with infrequent travel (if required)
- Experience working in pharmaceutical / healthcare / life sciences industry advantageous
- English and Mathematics GCSE grades A-C (or equivalent)
- Highly computer literate; experience operating with all Microsoft Office software

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £21,973.00 per year

Schedule:

- Flexitime

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 8905

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