Onboarding and Procurement Administrator

Onboarding and Procurement Administrator

Location: Gloucester – Hybrid

Contract: Permanent / Full time – Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:00pm

Salary: £27,645.19 plus great company benefits

Mears is a company uniquely placed to address the major challenges in housing and social care industries. We are a market leader in providing housing services to the affordable housing sector, and a major presence in homecare and deliver a high standard of Care Services.

We provide and manage 17,000 homes for local and central Government and are also responsible for keeping 750,000 social housing homes in the UK in good repair.

We are looking for an Organised, Trustworthy, Resilient and Hardworking Administrator to join our team based in Gloucester.

About the Role:

Your main priority as an Onboarding and Procurement Administrator will be to provide a support service to the branches including processing purchase orders in line with Company procedure via preferred suppliers where possible, using a management tool to control tasks and workflow.

You will assist branches in sourcing product and services, manage overhead spend including PPE and Uniform, Office equipment and stationary processes.

Duties will include:

• Answering phone calls from operatives to purchase materials or hire equipment from suppliers.

• Manage service now requests for non-urgent orders.

• Raising purchase orders received via service now or on the telephone

• Managing overhead spend including PPE and Uniform, Office equipment and stationary processes

• Subcontractor Database management and PQQ processing

• Van stock implementation, management, and reporting

• Setting up and verifying new suppliers and subcontractors

• Booking company parcels to go out with couriers

• Ad-hoc office duties

Role Criteria:

• High attention to detail and accuracy

• Confident IT user, comfortable navigating multiple systems

• Experience managing inbound and/or outbound calls

• Customer focused, with strong communication skills

• Experience in working in a similar role within construction or building trades is preferred, but not essential for this role.

Benefits:  

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.  

• Generous Pension Scheme

• Sick Pay

• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)

• Share saver scheme

• Eye test vouchers

• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)

• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme park, fully paid for including lunch

• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment

• Excellent training and development opportunities and 25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears- does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks before commencement of employment.

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At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.