Procurement Officer (0966)

Job Description

ClientEarth’s mission is to use the law to protect the earth and its inhabitants. This is a great opportunity to join a purpose-driven organisation and to make a significant impact in delivering value for money services and supporting the effective and consistent delivery of procurement processes in line with organisational strategy and policies.

Meet your Manager

In this role, you will be managed by Karolina Kaczmarek, our Global Procurement and Standardisation Manager. She oversees procurement activities across the organisation and is based in London. Karolina joined ClientEarth in 2016 and has been leading the Procurement team since its establishment in 2022.

Main Duties

• Ensure Value for Money is achieved throughout the Procurement to Payment process by selecting suppliers who align with ClientEarth’s sustainability goals, and by ensuring compliance with local laws, internal policies, best practices, and environmental standards
• Book travel for ClientEarth staff and partners, ensuring compliance with our Environmental, Travel, Procurement and Security policies
• Administer the purchase process, ensuring compliance with Environmental, Procurement and Due Diligence policies, ensuring purchases are processed in a timely manner
• Processing purchase requests, invoices and payments in a timely manner, support managing recurring payments, resolve invoice queries and discrepancies with our suppliers and Finance department

See the job description (below) for a full list of duties for this role.

Role requirements

• Knowledge through experience of a wide range of procurement activities
• Experience in booking business travel
• Experience in a customer service/administrative role
• Experience in processing payments and invoices

See the job description (below) for a full list of requirements for this role.

Note to candidates: We know that long lists of criteria can be daunting and that some candidates will not apply for a role unless they feel they are 100% qualified. If you feel you meet at least some of the essential criteria, we still encourage you to apply.

Further Information

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Flexible working: We are proud to be a Flexa accredited Employer. Visit our Flexa Employer page for more information on our approach to flexible working. Our flexible working policy allows our people the choice to decide to work from home/another location in the country where their contract of employment is issued for 80% of their month, with the other 20% of their month being office-based See our Benefits page for more as well as our flexible working FAQ.

ClientEarth values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We aim to appoint the most suitable candidate at all times and welcome applications from people from all different backgrounds. See our equity, diversity and inclusion journey page for more.

Please note that ClientEarth is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in Belgium or Germany.

ClientEarth is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal services to third parties.