Temporary Procurement Administrator

**Description**:
An opportunity has arisen for us to recruit a temporary Procurement Administrator within the Procurement department to cover a period of maternity leave.

This role involves coordinating with internal teams to understand their procurement needs and ensuring compliance with EPUKI policies and procedures.

The position is based at our Thorpe Park, Leeds office on a hybrid basis.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Procurement Manager, the key responsibilities and duties will be:

- Facilitating & administering HSE vendor questionnaires for new vendors and issuing requalification questionnaires as required (chasing returns, checking questionnaires completed correctly and all supporting evidence provided, following up any corrective actions and updating the vendor database).
- Facilitating cyber security questionnaires with the relevant vendors (issuing and chasing returns, checking questionnaires completed correctly and all supporting evidence provided, following up any corrective actions).
- Undertaking new vendor due diligence (vendor questionnaires, bank verification, financial health checks etc).
- General SAP administrative tasks (vendor master data, materials master data, outline agreements, PO maintenance).
- General site administrative tasks to support the power stations outages.
- Contract administration within the contract management portal in Wax (tender portal & contract management module).
- Administration of customs import & export forms.
- Any other related task to assist the Procurement function with their daily activities.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Background**
- Experience or knowledge of working within a Procurement function.
- Basic understanding of the procurement processes and best practices.
- Experience of SAP and contract management systems.
- Experience of working with cross-functional teams.
- Effective communication skills (verbal & written).
- Excellent IT skills in particular Microsoft Office - Word, Excel and Outlook.

**Behaviours**
- Effective time management, planning and organisational skills.
- High attention to detail when processing orders ensuring accuracy of data.

**Qualifications**
- Qualified to a good standard of education at GCSE level, or equivalent at grade C / 4 or above, including Maths and English.

**About EP UK Investments Ltd**:
EPUK Investments Ltd (EPUKI) is the UK division of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH), a leading energy group of over 70 companies that owns and operates assets across Europe. EPH group employs circa 24,000 people internationally, owns €30.5bn of assets, generating €37.1bn of revenue and an EBITDA of €4.3bn.

EPUKI was established in 2015 as the strategic platform for expanding the EPH group into the UK energy market. Since launching, EPUKI has made several acquisitions and developed a number of new opportunities and now owns multiple renewable and flexible power generating assets in the UK and Ireland.

EPUKI has grown rapidly to revenues ~£3.5bn and EBITDA ~£300m. We pride ourselves on an entrepreneurial culture and flat leadership structure where individuals (wherever they are in the organisation) can make a real impact on our business.

Our aim is to enable the UK and Ireland low carbon transition through provision of flexible and reliable energy supply. To achieve this, we will:

- develop, construct and acquire the right assets to support the transformation of the energy system;
- invest in our people and our assets to best respond to the changing needs of our sector;
- continuously challenge ourselves to identify opportunities, build our knowledge and develop innovative solutions.

EPUKI is one of the largest independent generators in the UK and Ireland, with an asset base that covers multiple technologies and a range of revenue streams; these include fully merchant baseload and peaking plant and index traded baseload plants, providing a range of system services across the energy and balancing spectrum.

Despite its significant market presence, EPUKI has a flat structure with fast paced decision-making ability enabling better optimisation of market positions. The market continues to evolve and develop as the UK and Irish governments drive towards Net Zero with increasing challenges of renewables penetration, introduction of hydrogen and other new technologies.