Procurement Execuitive

Our client are an award winning, long established, specialist procurement and sourcing organisation, supplying a range of Industrial, Mechanical and Electrical products across the globe. Due to continued business growth, they are looking for a Procurement Officer, with some experience in Procurement/Purchasing and with a desire to learn and develop within the sector.

To be effective in this role, you need to have a minimum of 1 years' experinece in Sourcing & Procurement, possess strong organisational skills and have a strong aptitude for learning.

This is an interesting multi-faceted role, which offers variety and requires a range of sourcing and procurement responsibilities to be executed to support clients with their procurement needs.

Key Features of the role

• Responding to procurement tenders with RFI's/PQQ's and timely submission of tender proposals to clients
• Sourcing items for customers via a range of suppliers and obtaining quotations and delivery information
• Prepare, implement, and execute procurement process, including contract negotiation work with finance team throughout the procurement cycle to assist in the payment to suppliers and receive payments from clients.
• You will be involved in researching contracts and tenders for Government ministries; in particular within Engineering, IT, Electrical, office supplies and Humanitarian Relief
• Communicating with international clients with request for quotations, and sourcing relevant suppliers; developing commercial awareness to drive project success
• Intense use of Excel for raising quotes, Pro-forma and commercial invoices.

Skills/Experience needed

• A minimum of 1 years’ experience in a Sourcing, Procurement/Purchasing role is required;
• Organisational and multi-tasking skills, with the ability to prioritise workloads
• Strong commercial acumen, with an interest in International Business
• Good administration skills/experience, with high volume correspondence/emailing skills
• Good communication, both written and verbal
• Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Attention to detail and able to produce work of an accurate nature

This role offers a great opportunity to learn more about successful Procurement and Sourcing and offers long term progression within the company into a senior Sourcing & Procurement specialist position.