Purchasing Officer

**The Institute**

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an international biomedical research institute of excellence, based in Barcelona, Spain, with more than 400 scientists from 44 countries. The CRG is composed by an interdisciplinary, motivated and creative scientific team which is supported both by a flexible and efficient administration and by high-end and innovative technologies.

In April 2021, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) received the renewal of the 'HR Excellence in Research' Award from the European Commission. This is a recognition of the Institute's commitment to developing an HR Strategy for Researchers, designed to bring the practices and procedures in line with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (Charter and Code).

Please, check out our Recruitment Policy

**The role**

As a Purchasing Officer, you will have the duties to:

- Determine needs for suppliers and collect cross-functional corporate/ business requirements
- Manage sourcing and procurement across indirect spend categories (Services)
- Maintain procurement supplier database and contract management tracking tools
- Communication with vendors and stakeholders to ensure compliance with procurement rules
- Purchase order creation
- Spot process improvement opportunities

**About the team**

The goals of the Procurement Area are to attend users and institute’s needs, to guarantee delivery time, quality and to get value for money while ensuring compliance in public procurement regulations. The Procurement Manager, four Procurement Officers, the Warehouse officer, the Equipment Purchasing Officer and technical liaison, and currently two Public Tender Officers compose the Team.

**Whom** would we like to hire?**

**Professional experience**

**Must Have**
- You have 2-3 years of experience in Purchasing items/services, negotiation, orders claims, attending service calls or monitoring all purchase process
- High Communication skills

**Desirable but not required/ Nice to **have**
- To have working experience with ERP systems (Oracle, SAP or similar)
- Flexible profile, able to cope with different clerical tasks
- Solutions-oriented and have the ability to influence people.
- Public sector experience

**Education and training**
- To hold a degree in Business Administration or FP Administration

**Languages**
- You are proficient in Spanish and Catalan
- To have a medium level of English

**Technical skills**
- To have advanced MS Office skills
- Numerical and analytical skills

**Competences**
- To have the ability to work independently as well as being part of a team
- To be precise and have attention to detail
- To have highly developed organization skills
- To be proactive
- To have a hands-on profile and problem-resolution oriented
- To have service orientation
- To have good communication skills.

**The Offer** - Working Conditions**
- **Contract d**uration**: Permanent contract
- **Estimated annual gross salary**:Salary is commensurate with qualifications and consistent with our pay scales.
- **Target s**tart date**: As soon as possible.

We provide a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructures, and unique professional career development opportunities. To check out our training and development portfolio, please visit our website in the training section.

**We offer and **promote a diverse and inclusive environment** and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.

**The **CRG is committed to reconcile a work and family life** of its employees and are offering extended vacation period, teleworking and the possibility to benefit from flexible working hours.