Overview:
Role: Procurement Assistant
Location: Shoreham-by-Sea
Role ID: 2026-3354
Grade: B
Starting Salary From: £27,900
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The role
We are seeking a Procurement Assistant to join our team - supporting the indirect team to support stores, site and the test team with day-to-day procurement activities, your role will assist the sites in Shoreham-By-Sea and Leamington-Spa.
Key Duties
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Raise purchase orders for goods and indirect services whilst also supporting the project team when required
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Working closely with accounts payable to goods receipt and clear any parked invoices
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Liaise with existing suppliers and source alternative suppliers where necessary
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Work closely with the stores team to consolidate supply base
- Monitoring the purchasing inbox to assist with all queries
Skills
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Knowledge of SAP is preferred
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Effective and efficient problem solver
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Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines
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Excellent collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders
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Experience of working with a stores department or warehousing function would be preferred
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via
[email protected] if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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