Procurement Support Officer

Overview

In this role you will support procurement across a leading higher education institution, ensuring compliant and cost-effective purchasing. You will analyze spend, maintain supplier data, and support system administration. You will produce dashboards, identify purchasing trends and risks, and handle procurement service desk queries in a collaborative team. This is a role with broad exposure to procurement activities, offering ongoing professional development and the opportunity to contribute to value-for-money and policy compliance at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• ongoing professional development
• opportunity to work in a respected higher education environment
• collaborative and supportive team environment

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support on procurement and purchasing processes
• Ensure requisitions and purchase orders are processed accurately in line with policies and financial regulations
• Review supplier requests and conduct due diligence
• Maintain supplier records
• Support procurement system administration
• Lead spend analysis and reporting, creating dashboards and identifying trends and risks
• Manage purchasing card audits
• Support users with procurement systems
• Respond to procurement queries via the service desk

Key requirements

• Experience in procurement, purchasing, finance or accounts payable
• Strong analytical skills with spend data interpretation and reporting
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
• Experience with Agresso software
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines with high accuracy
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Proactive, able to work independently
• Knowledge of procurement processes and supplier management (advantageous)

• Communication
• Stakeholder management
• Proactive approach
• Excel
• Agresso
• Procurement systems

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