The Role: The role of the Divisional Procurement

The Role:

The role of the Divisional Procurement Co-ordinator is to identify and deliver potential cost improvements, promote the implementation of group wide policies, processes and procedures for strategic and operational procurement. You will help the Category team to deliver divisional sourcing strategies through analysing business requirements, market investigations, contract formalisation and implementation under guidance.

The ideal candidate will have an extensive background in Procurement/Purchasing, with a relevant qualification looking to further their career. You must be inquisitive, able to multi-task, have an understanding of delivering great customer service and has excellent attention to detail.

What you’ll be responsible for:

Manage procurement data and assets under the direction of Category Managers and Procurement leadership.
Maintain the contract data base, ensuring accurate data entry, running reports as required
Undertake activities relating to Oracle Fusion Financials including new supplier set up, creating ,running and managing spend reports, converting requisitions to purchase orders, assignment updates from Jira and offering general advice to support the business in self-service model.
Pull relevant trading and financial reports from Experian (Portfolio) to support sourcing and supplier stability
Support team in all administrative activities for market exercises
Create, maintain policies, process flows, documentation, templates for the team ensuring regular updates
Coordination of the team; team meetings, away days, collaboration sessions
Maintain a catalogue of potential suppliers, those who show an interest in our business.

What you will need to succeed:

2 years administration / coordination experience
Ability to plan work in the face of conflicting priorities
Resilient when challenged to circumvent governance and process
A good communicator within and external to the business
Be proficient with Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Our benefits:

A competitive salary (DOE) plus benefits
Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
Annual bonus scheme
Colleague discount across all our N Brown Group brands (Simply Be, Jacamo, JD Williams, Home Essentials, Ambrose Wilson to name a few).
Local restaurant discounts across Manchester’s Northern Quarter
24 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 over the year
Hybrid working, enabling you to work from home or office (at a frequency agreed with your line manager) and staggered start times. We know these are different times and have embraced them to ensure our colleagues are supported.
A Manchester City Centre office base, socially distanced workstations and sanitizing stations around the business
Great tech to enable you to not only make doing your job easy but to also allow you to work from anywhere with a great WIFI connection
Onsite café at great subsidised rates

Who are we:

Here at N Brown we serve our customers through distinct brands; we are experienced, gained from over 160 years of trading; Inclusive as we believe in fashion without boundaries; sustainable as we strive to make as little impact on the planet and focused on the future as we are ALWAYS looking for ways to develop our business and serve our customers better.

Employees in our business may have access to our customers’ personal data therefore for a number of our roles, offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory criminal record check; having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an individual from obtaining a position with JD Williams

Employees in our business may have access to our customers’ personal data therefore for a number of our roles, offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory criminal record check. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an individual from obtaining a position with JD Williams