Purchasing Specialist

3 weeks ago


Abingdon, United Kingdom Evotec Full time

Based at the Abingdon Site in Oxford (UK), we offer you an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced commercial purchasing team to support the onsite purchasing team whilst working in collaboration with the extended purchasing team in Macclesfield.

You will interact with a wide range of stakeholders, providing help and guidance to colleagues regarding all procurement matters as well as offering support to both the order management team and the buying team to help manage the end-to-end purchasing process. Using your experience to help the buying team to identify and evaluate new and alternative products and suppliers with the aim of providing best in class service.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious and driven individual looking to develop their career.

Key Responsibilities or Core Accountabilities:- Identify, source, deliver and report cost saving and reduction opportunities- Responsible for content on (e-) catalogue and supplier management- On site expert for existing E-Procurement platform (Coupa)- Identify improvements and develop E-Procurement platform contributing to the Global Procurement objectives for best in class procurement technologies- Managing requests for new suppliers, solicitation and evaluation of quotations- Providing excellent customer service to all stakeholders- Work alongside Finance to resolve invoice queries

Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities:
- Minimum of 2-year Purchasing experience- E-Procurement experience- Commercial negotiation experience with good understanding of basic contractual terms- Excellent organisational and time management skills, able to work to tight deadlines- Proactive “can do” approach- Proficiency in Word and Excel, good numerical and analytical skills- High degree of self-motivation, reliability and flexibility- Excellent interpersonal skills, capable of interfacing with internal and external contacts at all levels- Ability to work on own as well as a team- Working towards a CIPS qualification (desirable)



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