Indirect Procurement Assistant

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Contract: Permanent

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join the indirect procurement team as an indirect procurement assistant.

You’ll be helping to ensure indirect procurement activities are delivered in a way that reflects best practice whilst supporting global business objectives. Building strong relationships with colleagues across the business is essential and you will also need to keep an eye out for opportunities for future projects.

Reporting to the Indirect Procurement Manager, you’ll be confident in sharing your own ideas of how to improve and develop the function. It’s a small team of two, but part of a wider team incorporating both the legal and compliance functions.

What you will be doing:

• Play a key supporting role in the indirect procurement function.

• Ensure compliance with the indirect procurement policy.

• Lead on smaller scale indirect procurement projects across the full end to end of business operations

• Support the Indirect Procurement Manager on large scale projects

• Support in the delivery of the Indirect Procurement key KPI metrics

• Negotiate pricing and payment terms with new suppliers.

• Own and manage the new supplier set up procedure.

• Proactively look for cost savings and efficiencies in the supply chain and ways of working.

• Help to manage and mitigate indirect procurement risks.

What skills and experiences you’ll need to ace this job:

• Ability and confidence to push back on spend with internal stakeholders and ensure internal processes are followed correctly.

• Excellent communication skills, written and oral, and comfortable working with colleagues at all levels of the business.

• Personable and solid teamworking skills to collaborate closely across the business.

• Self-sufficient and organised to prioritise and manage time effectively to achieve results.

• Procurement experience would be a positive but is not essential. If you are self-motivated, learn quickly and can demonstrate the other skills above you’ll be a great fit.

If this sounds like an exciting opportunity for you, please apply online. Any queries can be directed to Luke at largent@mayborngroup.com or James Davison at jdavison@mayborngroup.com