Procurement Support Assistant

An exciting and unique opportunity has become available for a confident and motivated Procurement Support Assistant for a role based in Birmingham. This unique opportunity will allow the successful candidate to join a vibrant and expanding company, who have already been recognised and rewarded for Enterprise and Innovation. This role will suit candidates who can demonstrate experience within a similar procurement position, ideally within an IT environment.

Role: Procurement Support Assistant
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Competitive

As a Procurement Support Assistant, you will support the divisional sales teams within the business and be responsible for sourcing the latest IT products in a highly cost effective and efficient manner. In addition to this, you will be responsible for the following:

-Fulfilling electronic enquiries from the various sales teams by: sourcing products at best price; answering technical enquiries; and sourcing new suppliers
-Negotiating best pricing and stock availability, and relay this back to the sales team
-Processing manual purchase orders electronically
-Building product specifications and create new product part codes
-Processing product file administration and filtering product promotions

The successful candidate will ideally be educated to degree level and be able to demonstrate previous experience within a similar role. Candidates will significantly benefit if this experience is within an IT environment, which allowed you to gather a strong knowledge of the IT channel. You will be a confident team player, who is able to work to strict deadlines whilst maintaining a strong eye for detail. You will be a natural negotiator, who is able to converse effectively with a variety of internal and external professionals.
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