Procurement Assistant

Role profile

Osborne Clarke have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Assistant to join our growing Procurement team in our Bristol office. This newly created role will play a key part in supporting the Head of Procurement, Senior Procurement Manager and Procurement Manager in all aspects of procurement across the business.

As the Procurement function evolves into a standalone department within our Transformation and Technology Department, this role offers real scope and opportunity to grow, with supplier interaction & ownership, reporting responsibility and deep involvement in sustainability initiatives.

This permanent position offers hybrid working, combining office and home-based work.

The role

The role will involve ensuring supplier due diligence is carried out, leading on basic supplier negotiations, maintaining supplier obligations in line with regulatory requirements and maintaining our contract database via a new Contract Management System.

Other key responsibilities of the role include:

Supplier Management: Ensuring supplier due diligence is carried out, managing continued due diligence requirements, and maintaining supplier obligations in line with regulatory requirements

Contract Management: Maintaining and managing OC's contract management system to ensure all supplier information is accurate and up to date. Collating and distributing accurate management information as required

Negotiations: Supporting standard negotiations with suppliers and assisting the Procurement Managers on any business-wide procurement projects

Feedback and Relationships: Collating internal customer feedback on supplier performance and developing strong relationships with business stakeholders and suppliers

Knowledge Sharing: Promoting knowledge sharing across OC and providing relevant support to the wider Procurement team as required

We are looking for

• Experience within or understanding of a Procurement or Supplier Management function with knowledge of the procurement life cycle
• Experience using or a working knowledge of contract management systems
• Experience dealing with suppliers, tenders, and the basic steps to carry out due diligence questionnaires (DDQs)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Working knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work cross-functionally across all departments
• Strong ability to multi-task, prioritise workloads, and work effectively in a team

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Dan Jones (Recruitment Manager) at dan.jones@osborneclarke.com.

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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