Stores and Purchasing Assistant

About the Role
We are seeking a Stores and Purchasing Assistant to support the smooth running of our Faculty Stores Facilities. You’ll play a key role in ensuring that laboratory consumables, equipment, and chemicals are ordered, received, and distributed efficiently, underpinning the Faculty’s research and teaching activities.

This role also includes:

• Providing an excellent front-line service to staff, students, and visitors.
• Managing deliveries, stock, and records with accuracy and care.
• Ensuring health and safety compliance, including safe handling and storage of chemicals.
• Supporting procurement processes, liaising with suppliers, and maintaining financial records.
• Covering for colleagues during absences and contributing to continuous improvement of our services.

About You
We are looking for someone who is:

• Experienced in a customer-facing role with excellent communication skills.
• Knowledgeable about health and safety procedures, including COSHH and manual handling.
• Confident managing stock, processing orders, and maintaining accurate records.
• Proactive, organised, and able to balance multiple priorities under pressure.
• Comfortable in a physical role involving standing, walking, and handling goods.
• Experience with financial ordering/procurement systems and additional training in Health & Safety would be an advantage.

About the Faculty
The Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London is a dynamic community of over 14,000 students and 1,500 staff. We combine research excellence with innovation, diversity, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Generating around £200 million annually and securing £45–50 million in new research awards each year, our work has strong global reach, including teaching over 5,000 students in China. Joining our Professional Services team means supporting world-class research, education, and public engagement that deliver real impact.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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