Procurement Contract Team Administrator

Permanent
Full time - flexible working may be considered
35 hours per week
Birmingham based £17,094 per annum; London based £20,566 per annum
Birmingham, Hybrid - home based and Birmingham
Corporate Functions (HR, Finance, Project Management, IT, Risk and Audit)

What is in it for you?

•  Demonstrate your excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
•  An opportunity to develop professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders
•  Gain experience working in a procurement team, providing invaluable support.

The role:

Working within the Procurement Contract Management team, you will be supporting team members with providing accurate documentation of meetings, through minute taking and assisting with meeting logistics, such as booking meeting rooms.

As a Procurement Contract Team Administrator you will be liaising with other teams internally, and external suppliers, to develop working relationships.

You will provide a first-class administrative service, ensuring you are adapting to the teams needs and prioritising work effectively.

It is essential that you have excellent attention to detail and remain on top of running regular reports. You will need to demonstrate good time management and communication skills, both written and verbally.

You will gain an understanding of procurement practices and contract management, and be involved in meetings with project team members and suppliers.

What we are looking for:

•  Effective team working
•  Ability to prioritise tasks and work flexibly
•  Confidence to build rapport with others

To apply for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter. Please ensure that your CV and covering letter clearly demonstrate how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience requirements of the role.

This role can be based in either London or Birmingham. Please specify which location you wish to be based from in your covering letter. 

Interviews for this role will take place mid-end of October 2017.

Essential

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and experience:

Team player with good communication skills

Educated to GCSE level standard or above

Practical experience of providing general administrative duties

MS Outlook, Word, Excel and Access – basic level

Numerate

Document production skills – to produce clear, well formatted documentation to high standards.

Minute taking skills

Organisational skills

Good attention to detail

A good team player – willing and able to assist customers and colleagues and flexibility to cover for others

Desirable

A brief understanding of procurement processes and policies, including basic contract management.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Vacancy closing date: 13/10/2017, 23:55

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to the performance of our organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.

This opportunity is closed to applicants.