Element has an opportunity for a Senior Administrator (Shared service centre) to join our growing team. In this role you will assist the Element business in providing a professional service across a range of category areas to our labs & businesses across Europe. As part of the shared service business, you will work closely with our finance teams to help ensure our labs procurement requirements are delivered effectively and efficiently. The administrator role reports to the Procurement operations manager.

• Ensuring All Element Procurement processes are adhered to across the business.
• Supporting the necessary governance and control required to ensure operational requirements are met.
• Respond to any site & stakeholder queries as required
• Assist with vendor escalations (including invoice resolution & supplier service issues)
• Supporting finance team on P2P process for all UK / European sites
• Reviewing and setting up new supplier requests working with the labs & vendors to ensure process compliance within our D365 & Vendor on Boarding systems.
• Responsible for Purchase Order administration tasks (monthly / weekly as required)
• Responsible for updates to vendor master files directly onto the ERPs
• Data cleansing of systems (Microsoft D365,Navision,E-Pro)
• Responding to site queries and assisting stakeholders as required across various category areas
• Supporting vendor queries (including invoice resolution & supplier service issues)
• Supporting finance team on P2P process for all UK / European sites

• Good all round procurement knowledge (ERP Systems, procurement processes, vendor management and PO administration)
• Good level of supplier interaction enabling issue resolution
• Procurement system experience (Raising Purchase Orders, Supplier setup and reporting)
• Strong excel knowledge
• Good Team player ideally with multi-site environment experience

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Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.