Procurement Administrator - FTC

Procurement Administrator – 3+ Months Fixed Term Contract

Are you passionate about purchasing? Looking for a new challenge? Do you have experience in procurement?

As an inclusive, forward thinking business, we take pride in our approach to Procurement across Avara Foods and are looking for a highly competent and motivated Procurement Administrator to join our Procurement Team, supporting our Data Analyst based at our Brackley Site, Northamptonshire.

As a Procurement Administrator, you will report into the Procurement Data Analyst and you will be responsible for ensuring suppliers are qualified, pricing is kept up to date, validating savings and inflation and producing and reporting KPIs across a range of areas within the P2P process.

• Work with each member of the Procurement team to validate their savings and inflation for period end and monthly finance reporting.
• Maintain current catalogues and implement new ones on Oracle when Buyers or Category Leads request it.
• Support the team with keeping prices up to date for inventory items.
• Keep Blanket Purchase Agreements up to date with live codes for inventory.
• Support ERP Functional Specialist with removing expired codes and add new ones on an annual basis.
• When requested, set up, maintain and end date Contract Purchase Agreements and Blanket Purchase Agreements.
• Process manual payment requests
• New supplier set up, categorisation and qualification.
• Qualify our current supplier base and report on the results.
• Support Procurement Team with tenders and other admin tasks
• Maintain Procurement mailbox
• Regular support for requisitioners – Training for new Requisition ers. Ensure Training section on Milo is kept up to date.
• Ad hoc tasks

• Knowledge of Oracle system
• Report building
• Excellent Excel skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proactive in organising personal workload
• Able to work with minimal supervision
• High level of communication skills
• Able to build working relationships easily with all key functions in organisation
• Team player

As a Procurement Administrator you will enjoy a secure, supportive and progressive working environment, where your contribution and achievements will be recognised and rewarded.

• 31 Days Holiday
• 5% Pension
• Life Insurance
• Various lifestyle benefits, including wellbeing resources

Avara Foods is one of the UK’s largest food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the nation’s most popular supermarkets and restaurants. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which include feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employ more than 7000 people. This is achieved by investing in people, utilising the latest technology and being uncompromising in our commitment to high quality and food standards.

We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.