Rebecca Attwell

Sourced and purchased across multiple spend categories, including IT, marketing, facilities, and professional services, while managing requests within customer SLAs. Benchmarked vendor pricing, negotiated volume discounts, onboarded suppliers, and reviewed/redlined supplier contracts, providing eProcurement training and end-to-end buying workflow documentation.

Managed the government tender process, drafting specifications and tender documents and building evaluation scoring matrices to support supplier selection. Liaised with Legal and government departments to draft/review agreements, facilitated evaluation meetings, provided eProcurement portal training, and debriefed unsuccessful tenderers with formal feedback.

Sourced and placed orders for IT hardware, software, peripherals, and network equipment through purchasing systems while supporting global procurement operations. Approved invoices, monitored purchase orders and shipments, tracked global spend with weekly reporting, standardized purchasing processes across regions, and managed contract renewals and associated documentation.

Sourced and purchased IT hardware, software, and peripherals across EMEA, obtaining approvals, monitoring budgets, and validating invoices against correct cost centres and signatories. Acted as a key point of contact for invoicing/account issues and managed corporate mobile device purchasing, stock control, and equipment setup recordkeeping across multiple locations.

Owned end-to-end purchase order processing, ensuring compliance with procurement policy by obtaining signatory approvals and providing required documentation and justifications. Monitored costs against business cases to keep projects within budget, ensured invoice payment within contracted terms, supported procurement administration, and implemented updated procedures to meet audit requirements.

Managed purchase order processing and supported two retail outlets by expediting orders, handling returns, and resolving invoice discrepancies. Negotiated with suppliers, maintained purchasing databases for accurate month-end reporting, and supported audit requests and annual stock takes while ensuring spend was assigned correctly to cost centres and within authority limits.

Completed an OCR Level 2 NVQ in Business and Administration at Isle of Man College beginning in October 2011.

Grade: B-D

Completed GCSE studies at Ramsey Grammar School, achieving Grades B-D.