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Purchasing Assistant
| Posting date: | 04 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,992 to £26,835 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 March 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Ipswich Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REQ00950 |
Summary
We are seeking three Purchasing Assistants to deliver general purchasing work , supporting our Procurement Team and service areas to ensure goods and services are delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner.
The Purchasing team is an integral part of the wider Procurement team at Ipswich Borough Council and is responsible for supporting service areas by providing purchasing services and administrative support.
You will be working with our service areas and Procurement Officers to issue purchasing orders to suppliers and to undertake request for quotations. This will be a varied and busy role ideal for someone who is looking for a career in Procurement.
You must enjoy using IT systems to process information and to maintain supplier and product data.
You will be working with colleagues across the Council, and we are looking for team players who can manage a varied workload and respond to changing priorities. You will be supported to build relationships with key contract managers to understand their needs and to deliver simple procurements for them.
Ideally you will have worked in an administrative or customer service role and have experience of using a finance or e-tendering system. You will have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel and you will be a competent user of IT systems.
Hours of work are 37 per week, Monday to Friday.
This is a hybrid working role (a minimum of 1 day per week working in the office).
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
For more information about this role please contact Elizabeth Dunachie (she/her) via email (elizabeth.dunachie@ipswich.gov.uk).
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Interviews dates to be confirmed.
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications
Please note CVs are not accepted.
The Purchasing team is an integral part of the wider Procurement team at Ipswich Borough Council and is responsible for supporting service areas by providing purchasing services and administrative support.
You will be working with our service areas and Procurement Officers to issue purchasing orders to suppliers and to undertake request for quotations. This will be a varied and busy role ideal for someone who is looking for a career in Procurement.
You must enjoy using IT systems to process information and to maintain supplier and product data.
You will be working with colleagues across the Council, and we are looking for team players who can manage a varied workload and respond to changing priorities. You will be supported to build relationships with key contract managers to understand their needs and to deliver simple procurements for them.
Ideally you will have worked in an administrative or customer service role and have experience of using a finance or e-tendering system. You will have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel and you will be a competent user of IT systems.
Hours of work are 37 per week, Monday to Friday.
This is a hybrid working role (a minimum of 1 day per week working in the office).
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
For more information about this role please contact Elizabeth Dunachie (she/her) via email (elizabeth.dunachie@ipswich.gov.uk).
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Interviews dates to be confirmed.
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications
Please note CVs are not accepted.
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