Procurement Adminisrator

**Procurement Administrator**
**About Novo-K**
We offer agile procurement solutions that help organisations deliver cost transformation, supply chain resilience and implement their sustainability commitments. We provide services for UK and global clients.
We offer cost effective solutions which offers value for money and return on investment. Using Novo-K's SMARTprocurement methodology, our three service units are procurement outsourcing, consultancy and recruitment which helps to support sustainable growth.
We are dedicated to the principles of sustainable and responsible procurement. Through our charity partners we support important initiatives that help disadvantaged communities and plant trees to fight climate change.
We align with three UN sustainable development goals, 5 Gender Equality, 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure and 13 Climate Change. The three not-for-profits we partner with are Microloan foundation, The Washing machine project and Ecologi.
**Role Summary**
This role would support the procurement team to deliver key activities for our clients;
- Completing supplier due diligence for clients i.e. credit checking, companies house, insurance
- Supporting Procurement Specialists with contract management activities i.e. renewal dates
- Supporting clients to follow procurement and contract management processes
- Contacting suppliers when required to follow up with questions
- Sending out Risk Assessments via our in-house portal
- Obtaining quotes for our charity clients
- Formatting reports and formatting spreadsheets
- Helping to manage our time-tracking tool to support capacity planning
- Managing client reporting tool
- Ad-hoc admin tasks to support the procurement team

**Key projects**
- Contract Management for National charities
- Supporting Buying Activities for Charities
- Managing planner boards for the procurement team

**Key Working Relationships**
- Internal: Reporting to a Procurement Specialist
- External: Suppliers, Clients

**Training and Support**
- Full training provided by Procurement Specialists
- Career path towards Procurement Officer within 12 months
- Support towards CIPS qualification

**Skills required**
- Knowledge of MS Office products
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Buying experience desirable
- Public Sector knowledge/experience desirable
- Experience of SharePoint desirable

**Talent required**
- Innovative - creative and interested in finding solutions to overcome challenges
- Excited and positive outlook - success motivated
- Growth Mindset - always learning and ambitious
- Tenacity - A desire to make things happen
- Self-Motivated and team orientated - capable of working with a varied and often geographically dispersed team
- Adaptable and thrives on change in a fast-paced business