Procurement Administrator

**£23,000 - £24,000 per annum**

**1 year fixed term contract.**

**Location: In our modern HQ in Harwell Science & Innovation Park, near Didcot, South Oxfordshire.**

**Full Time Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week**

**SMS is one of the UK’s leading independent Water Hygiene specialists, driving the evolution of the Water Treatment field with innovation and best practice to ensure the safety of the people in the communities we serve.**

Our procurement team are in the heart of our business, ensuring our UK wide workforce is provisioned with equipment, supplies, and services to support the exciting growth of our operations. Going through transformation to ensure effective supplier-to-user chain and optimisation of supplier value opportunities, we are now looking for an experienced, organised and diligent administrator to support our friendly, collaborative team in our 1 year fixed term contract.

**Your duties and responsibilities**:

- Building effective relationships with stakeholders across the UK, answering, and administering approved purchases
- Creating and updating MS Excel / Google Sheets reporting and metrics
- Administer fleet, new vehicle pipeline and vehicle delivery documents
- Obtain insurance paperwork, assess and add new suppliers to rosters
- Diligently update supplier insurance databases
- Manage supplier relationships, providing support to in supplier and insurance renewal analysis
- Control mobile supplier account, supporting enquiries queries and supplier administration

**Requirements**:
**Essential**:

- Previous experience in an office coordination role, demonstrating collaborative working style in a busy challenging environment
- MS Excel and / or Google Sheets experience, using Pivot tables to analyse information
- Demonstration of building effective stakeholder or customer relationships
- Strong numerical skills, able to analyse multiple costings and figures
- Advanced communication and team collaboration skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Full UK, Manual, Driving Licence

**Desirable**:

- SME Business experience
- Procurement administration experience

Applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK.

All roles at SMS require a DBS check; SMS Environmental will cover the cost of this if you do not already hold a valid DBS certificate.

**Benefits**

**Why join us?**

SMS Environmental Ltd prides itself on its commitment to supporting our employees in their personal growth and wellbeing. We offer:

- Competitive salary
- 30 days holiday including bank holidays
- Contributory Pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Plan including a 24/7 free confidential helpline
- Employee discounts and cashback savings across hundreds of your favourite high street brands, online shopping, holidays, and days out
- Extra bonus holiday for birthday on completion of 2 years’ service
- Support to gain further training and qualifications

**Background on SMS**:
For more than 20 years, SMS Environmental has been one of the leading water hygiene service providers throughout the UK, ensuring the public are protected from infectious diseases that can be carried through water systems. We provide essential services to an array of domestic and commercial clients including water testing, risk assessments, air sampling and air conditioning maintenance.

Our extensive skills and expertise in infection control and systems management have given us a key opportunity to drive the design and standardisation of Water Treatment education and training used throughout the industry today. We work closely with City & Guilds, CIBSE (CPD) Accreditation Board and UKAS to create, review and enhance modern water hygiene training course contents, materials and assessments to ensure they are fit for purpose and set high standards for the whole sector to aspire to.

All SMS employees are trained to the highest standard using a range of in-house training and external learning programmes that are accredited by City & Guilds. SMS Environmental has been awarded the Investors in People accreditation since 2011 and we continue to invest in our employees by supporting individuals to achieve their next step within their career.

SMS Environmental employs over 180 people from water treatment engineers and plumbers to office staff across our 4 nationwide offices based in Harwell, Derby, Wales and Scotland.