Procurement Assistant

Providing administrative support to the procurement team, Randstad are keen to hire an experienced administrator for our client Belfast Metropolitan College.

Benefits

• Competitive salary £12.52 per hour
• 36 hours per week, Mon-Fri
• Convenient city centre location, Millfield Campus
• Discounted on-site parking
• Enhanced holiday package
• Employee Assistance Programme
• High Street Retail & Leisure discounts
• Opportunity to work with one of the UKs largest FE Colleges

Requirements

• English GCSE at Grade C or above or equivalent
• Maths GCSE at Grade C or above or equivalent
• 1 - 2 years administrative experience within a finance or procurement setting
• Excellent MS Office skills including Word and Excel
• Experience of planning and organising administrative tasks
• Candidates will be subject to enhanced vetting checks before commencement in role including an enhanced Access NI check

Responsibilities

• Approve purchase orders in line with delegated authority, and review and release purchase orders to suppliers
• Conduct daily requisition transfers, ensuring coding is correct and approval/s are in place
• Work with College Departments to ensure that Goods Receipt Notes are conducted on a timely basis
• Upload and code contract data
• Assist end-users with queries
• Liaise with end users to resolve queries and/or purchasing issues
• Provide reports to line manager
• Maintain the organisational contracts spreadsheets, updating and amending as required
• Ensure all requisitions are compliant with College procurement process
• Ensure appropriate documentation is in place prior to release of all college purchase order
• Spend Monitoring and Month End Processing
• Conduct monthly organisational spend reports and compare against contract
• Update contract spend on monthly basis, and report deviations to Procurement Manager

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

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