Morson are recruiting a Procurement Officer to suppoort our leading Stevenage based defence client. This is a 6 - 9 month contract and you will need to work on site 1 - 2 days/week, with the rest of the week from home. The rate on offer is 23.64/hour (including holiday pay) or 27/hour umbrella

The Procurement Officer  will be the focal point for working with the CSS Spares and Repairs Team in the organisation and the management of customer repairs and spares procurement based upon the requests made by internal project teams. The role also involves supplier assessment, adherence to open order books, supplier communications to ensure on time deliveries, communication/solutions provision for delayed deliveries and measuring/feedback on supplier performance.

Responsibilities
Purchasing
• Responsibilities include processing of electronic and manual requisitions.
• Use of SAP to raise request for quotations (RFQ)
• Creating Excel spread sheets to assess the data to aid supplier selection process.
• Raising of purchase orders within SAP.
• Progressing of orders to ensure on time delivery to the internal customers.
• Purchase order amendment in line with changing delivery forecasts post order acknowledgment.
• Maintain dialogue with internal customer to ensure topical delivery forecast are maintained.
• Holding & supporting business operational reviews

Administration
• Liaise with both Bought Ledger and vendors to resolve Invoice queries and enable timely and accurate payments.
• Data cleansing of SAP to ensure accurate data collection.
• Quality assessment and measurement of suppliers. Distribution of monthly reports to vendors and ensuring correct reason codes are annotated, enabling accurate reports for delivery and quality purposes.

Skillet/experience required:
• Proactive approach flexible self-starter
• IT Literate - Must be able to use Microsoft Office (Word Power Point Excel Outlook) to a proficient level. (A working knowledge of SAP is an advantage.)
• Education: Educated to basic secondary level: (Maths, English to O level/GCSE/NVQ as a minimum)
• Ability to effectively communicate and maintain good relations with both internal customers and external suppliers.
• Ability to work under pressure to deadlines in a professional manner

Security Requirements

• The role is subject to full Security Clearance (SC) with no caveats.  Due to the specialist nature of the role, it is expected that the individual may need to view confidential material subject to “UK Eyes Only” and therefore the vacancy is only available to UK nationals only.