Data Coordinator - Procurement Team
Salary of upto £30,000 Dependent on Experience + Employee Benefits
Hybrid Working - with regular travel to Solihull and/or Oxford
We are all about rewarding hard work, that's why we offer a benefits package with great perks from vehicle discounts to mental health support and much more...
Family Friendly - Enhanced family friendly policies, giving you more time to spend with your family.
Annual leave - A minimum of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays), rising with long service.
Looking to develop? - Grow your career with us, receive industry leading training from the brand you represent and our dedicated training team.
Your Wellbeing - We take employee wellbeing seriously, we offer a programme to support all our colleagues and families with whatever challenges they may face.
Your Discount - From Apple to Asda and everything in between, we offer discounts that save you money every day.
Your Finances - Effortlessly grow your savings with our Share Scheme, we will match up to 7% when you enrol into our flexible pension scheme and have peace of mind with our free life assurance cover and much more.
Drive with us - We offer discounts and offers on both new & used vehicles and servicing for you, your friends and family.
Your Health - From gym discounts to cash healthcare plans, find everything you need to look after your health.
Cycle to Work - Get a bike and or cycling gear at a significantly reduced price.
Community Volunteering Day - Every colleague has an additional day to spend volunteering for a charity or good cause of their choice, as well as the option to get involved in our company wide charity initiatives.
A company that cares - We believe Inchcape is for everyone and we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a diverse, multi-franchise business of significant scale with a distributed decision-making structure and wide geographic footprint.
Job Introduction
An integral role within our UK Procurement team and reporting to the Procurement Manager, the Data Coordinator (known internally as a Procurement Coordinator) will assist in the delivery of our core purpose: working in partnership to increase Inchcape's profitability procuring quality Indirect goods and services at the lowest total cost without compromising on quality or ethics.
The role will be a flexible hybrid working model - which gives the opportunity to balance working with the team in an office and remotely during the week, with your head office base being Solihull or Oxford. There will be a requirement to travel throughout the UK occasionally.
The right candidate will be an analytical thinker, with a keen eye for producing reliable and insightful data, as well as having proven experience and advanced proficiency in the use of Mircrosoft Excel. You will have experience of producing and presenting concise reports which will help the Procurement team to support business decisions. This role offers the opportunity to leverage your data analysis skills to drive improvements and create meaningful data.
Job Responsibilities
Reporting & Dashboards
- Providing meaningful insight using reports and dashboards to drive operational efficiencies and optimise our spend base
- On-going maintenance and updating of procurement reports, spend, savings and contract dashboards
- Sourcing, compiling, and analysing information to support the decision-making process for Procurement projects, category plans and tenders
- Using reports to challenge spend (e.g., through leaked supplier spend analysis, category spend analysis and trends across the business)
Project Management
- Gain experience in procurement projects by managing a section of the suppliers and or small value contracts
- Work collaboratively with the business to ensure projects meet the business needs and sustainability goals
Procurement Tasks
- Confident liaising and presenting to suppliers, internal departments and senior management team
- Supporting in supplier reviews, to ensure contracted service levels are being adhered to
- Challenge traditional way of thinking with guidance and innovative solutions
- Set up and maintain P2P functionality to control and manage business purchasing
- Working closely with all members of the Procurement team, supporting them with clear analysis of spend, performance data, supplier MI, building tenders, RFP submissions and market analysis
The Ideal Candidate
- Advanced excel skills (Pivot tables, v-look up and other tools)
- Computer literate (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)
- Highly numerate, with the ability to analyse and interpret large volumes of data from multiple sources
- Excellent analysis and insight skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Good organisational and presentation skills
- Strong attention to detail / data input accuracy
- Strong team player
- Self-starter with the drive to achieve success
- Procurement background
- Ideally some exposure to Power BI and/or Alteryx, ERP or P2P systems (Coupa, SAP, Oracle etc.)
- Desire to progress within procurement potentially with CIPS training
- Knowledge of automotive retail sector
About The Company
Be part of something big
Group 1 Automotive is on an exciting growth journey. We're the largest partner in the UK for Mercedes- Benz, Volkswagen and Audi, and second largest for BMW & MINI.
Home to more than 7000 colleagues who are dedicated to providing exceptional customer services, we have 113 dealerships in the UK, representing 21 brands at the forefront of automotive retail.
But you don't need to love cars to work with us - you just need to share our mission to create outstanding and trusted experiences for our customers, our partners, and our people.
In return, we recognise that the success of our business is because of our fantastic people. Which is why we're committed to providing fantastic career opportunities, comprehensive training, competitive pay and benefits and full support personally and professionally.