Procurement Enablement Specialist

Job Title:              Procurement Enablement Specialist     
Location:              UK, Porsmouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    £30,000 - £37,000 + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF54908

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a procurement enablement specialist at our corporate services site.

The role
As a procurement enablement specialist you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary.Babcock Corporate Services (BCS) is a global function, which supplies and operates all IT, Security, Procurement, and Finance Shared Services.  We are embedded alongside the operations that we serve, enabling us to maintain close working relationships which support delivery to our customers.

Day to day, you’ll develop and implement effective R2P solutions based on group category selected suppliers to enable the business to transact.  

Additionally, you will also be required to:

• Ensure a consistent approach to the development of guided buying solutions (catalogue and forms), with a focus on the end user experience.
• Document standard processes and interfaces, addressing any dependencies
• Produce detailed flow charts that provide clear responsibilities and accountabilities to make the transactional interface work.
• Develop check list based on experience – knowledge sharing and building on experience for future activities.
• Support the cXML supplier implementation for Punchout Catalogues, Purchase Order & Invoice transmission.

This role is a full time/ permanent position based remotely with occasional travel to Portsmouth on a monthly basis. 

The successful candidate can work compliantly from any Babcock site or location. OR on site + (location) with hybrid working from home arrangements. 

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. 

Essential experience of the Procurement Enablement Specialist: 

•  Hands on approach; Problem solver
•  Experience implementing Coupa (desirable) and setting up catalogues / Forms / questionnaires
•  Detailed knowledge and Experience of working with the Requisition to Pay process. 
•  Comfortable with Excel
•  Ability to ensure deadlines and targets are achieved or surpassed
•  Experience of working with high volumes and responding to multiple priorities effectively in parallel
• Can come from a procrement coordinator or buyer background (Indirect)

Qualifications for the Procurement Enablement Specialist: 
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
   

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date:  06/05/2024

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