Contracts & Purchase Data Coordinator

**Do you want to be part of the successful and focused support team?**
- **Do you enjoy being responsible for organising and coordinating projects?**
- **Are you experienced in working on several projects simultaneously?**

If you’ve answered “yes” to these questions the role of IUK Business Growth Contracts & Purchase Data Coordinatorcould be for you

**About the role**

You will be working as part of the MI and Contracts team to support the successful delivery of the Innovation UK Business Growth service, supporting the overall delivery of the IUK Business Growth contracts through coordination of relevant processes and administration with internal and external colleagues, delivery teams, external suppliers, partners and stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Coordinate with the directorate on activities relating to purchase order requisitions, invoicing and queries as required for IUK Business growth contract activities.
- Support the booking of travel, accommodation, meeting rooms etc., on behalf of the IUK team.
- Coordinate the Innovation directorate’s external and internal events, implementing the agreed events process actions, e.g. organising internal and external meetings, communication with venues, booking delegates.
- Support with activities relating to contracts, claims, forecasts, budgets as required.
- Support with activities relating to the Business Management Systems process, compliance and implementation.
- Undertake work to continually improve internal processes and systems.

**About you**

We are looking for a team player with good interpersonal skills and an administration or projects background, who can demonstrate being highly organised with the ability to prioritise their own workload and meet multi project deadlines.

In addition, you will:

- Experience of working in a customer-facing role, preferably with SMEs.
- Experience of general monitoring and project management systems.
- Experience of working with databases and maintaining accurate customer information on CRM systems and IT literate with experience of MS Office
- Ability to identify and solve problems

**What we offer**
- We are more interested in finding the right person, but we are loosely looking in the region of £22,561 - £28,924 pa FTE
- Broadband allowance
- Generous, up to 10.5% non-contributory pension scheme
- Ill-health income protection
- Life assurance (Death in Service)
- 26 days holiday (rising to 28 after 2 years’ service, pro rata for part time)
- Flexible and supportive working culture including access to mental health first aiders
- Wellbeing services for employees including access to discounts, employee assistance programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Doctorline and more
- Modern, open space and technology enabled working environment
- Flexible benefits including holiday-buy scheme, eye care vouchers, annual flu vaccination, Cyclescheme.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and value diversity in our workforce. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

**About us**

We are one of the UK’s foremost business support organisations and for over 25 years, we have provided business advisory services to more than 500,000 small to medium sized businesses on behalf of Government and Private sector organisations. As part of our expert team, you can expect to be empowered to be the best you can and share our company values of Openness (I am keen and willing to engage), Inspiration (I want to be the best that I can be), Conviction (We win, or lose, together) and Accountability (I will take responsibility and ownership). As a business we recognise that giving a superior service to our clients depends on making the most of our people and we aim to give our teams challenging opportunities, recognition for achievement, job enrichment and the maximum flexibility we can.

**The fine print**
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**Job Type**: Permanent

Pay: Up to £28,924.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Hatfield AL10 9NE