Procurement Coordinator

Unipharmedtech; London Borough of Hillingdon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company is seeking a Procurement Coordinator in London. In this role, you will support the procurement process from customer inquiry to cash collection, ensuring efficient item creation, supplier database maintenance, and collaboration with the procurement team. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and a proactive approach to work.

Qualifications

• Comfortable working within a team environment.
• Demonstrates ambition and initiative in their work.
• Open to change in a fast-moving industry.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the sourcing log with updated information.
• Assist in researching products for accurate quotations.
• Support the procurement inbox for efficient query management.
• Work with procurement team for day-to-day operations.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work on own initiative

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Job description

The Role
This is a Procurement Coordinator role, focused on ensuring consistent support for the Buyer and Supply Chain Specialist. The Procurement Support role will provide support from Customer enquiry right through to cash collection to ensure that all aspects of the value chain can be supported when required. For instance, support with Quote Management, Item Creation, Supplier Database Maintenance and Supplier Re-qualification can be performed in an efficient and effective way.

Key Outcomes

• Maintenance of the Sourcing Log to ensure the latest information is captured
• Assisting with researching products to ensure best accuracy of quotations
• Support with the Procurement Inbox to ensure queries are managed efficiently and effectively.
• Support
• Collaborating with other Procurement team members to ensure all relevant paperwork and documentation is in place to comply with MHRA guidelines
• Supporting Item Creation on ASC and managing master data.
• Support on setting up new supplier qualification including annual validation, following through with QA and Finance.
• Support on re-qualification of existing suppliers including annual validation, following through with QA and Finance
• Maintenance of the Supplier database to ensure all information is up to date
• Work closely with all other members of the procurement team to effectively support the day to day operations of Durbin stock management and procurement processes.
• Support providing updates on outstanding orders (e.g. ETA’s of stock arrival and any delays)
• Support with initiating the goods collection process

Qualification, Experience & Skills Required

• Comfortable working within a team environment
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Works well within a team, flexible and willing to share the workload both ways.
• Demonstrates ambition and initiative in their work.
• Open to change in a fast-moving industry and to new learning.
• Be supportive of colleagues in a team environment.
• Should adhere to the service values of Durbin On Demand.
• Passionate about their work with Patients in mind
• Excellent communications skills including verbal, written and presentational. Excellent attention to detail is essential

Uniphar – Who we are

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.

Please note that Uniphar is an equal-opportunity employer; we do not discriminate and welcome all responses.

About Us

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.