Procurement Administrator | Merivale

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Administrator to join our procurement team and the everchanging world of hospitality. The procurement team is responsible for negotiating commercially advantageous prices, terms and conditions for all major categories of operational expenditure and managing contracts and suppliers throughout the procurement lifecycle.             

Your role is to assist the Procurement and Supply Chain team in maintaining systems, processes and databases. You’ll provide excellent administrative support across the Procurement department as an enabler for the department to operate effectively, delivering great results passionately and with determination. You will help support wider department objectives, ensuring all tasks are completed to the required timescales and standards and living our value of making it happen.

Responsibilities to include:

• Provide administration support for key team processes including maintaining the purchase order system, assisting suppliers with setting up on the accounts system and resolving invoice discrepancies
• Develop buying guides / catalogues to enable venues to be self sufficient
• Involvement in establishing/maintaining good working relationships with suppliers.  
• Resolve issues e.g. invoice, delivery, quality problems with suppliers and A/P, Ops and end users.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities to product and service specifications
• Assist various users and suppliers in resolving questions with the Purchasing System & onboarding as catalogues develop.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to ensure business needs are being prioritised & met, identify and quantify trade-offs between cost, quality and service.

The Essentials

• Proficiency with MS Office suite (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Previous experience in hospitality or procurement would be beneficial
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, and good organisational and problem-solving skills
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships
• Desire to contribute & drive improvement
• Ability to effectively prioritise and simultaneously manage multiple work streams, and work independently
• Ability to work in fast paced & cross functional environment

The Reward 

Joining us means becoming part of a diverse team of nearly 5,000 people who are passionate about creating amazing experiences for our guests – and having fun while doing it! 

We also offer: 

• Competitive salary. 

• Paid parental leave and flexible return to work support for new parents. 

• Amazing discounts at 90+ venues. 

• Career progression opportunities and development through leadership programs and supported technology education tools. 

• Access to our employee assistance program which provides free and confidential health support. 

• Employee referral program. 

• Free lunch in venue each day.