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Purchase to Pay (P2P) Co-ordinator

JD Sports- Head Office, Warwick House, Bury, Bury, United Kingdom Req #1592
23 May 2025
Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
 
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
 
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
 

Purchase to Pay (P2P) Co-ordinator

 

Responsible to:

Assistant Group Purchase to Pay (P2P) Manager

Responsible for:

Supporting Purchase to Pay (P2P) processes by:

  • Delivering Group purchase to pay system (www.coupa.com) training to internal colleagues and external suppliers.
  • Monitoring and auditing new supplier set-ups
  • Support colleague and supplier P2P queries, provide issue support and resolutions.

 

Department:

Group Procurement – Purchase to Pay

Location:

JD Sports Fashion plc, Pilsworth, Bury (1st Floor Balmoral House)

Hours:

Full time

Role Overview:

JD Sports Fashion plc (“JD”) is a FTSE100 organisation with a growing global presence and an indirect procurement spend in excess of £1bn.  This role will provide commercial support to all JD businesses – UK and International, engaging with colleagues ranging from store to Head of Department level. 

The successful individual shall be able to:

  • Play a key role in training and onboarding key business divisions and suppliers by leading Coupa P2P training and development.
  • Create, maintain, and deliver training resources for both internal colleagues and external suppliers covering:

P2P colleague training (new, and development/re-training)

P2P administration

  • Support system maintenance, manage P2P development projects, and improve existing processes.
  • Engage with colleagues from multiple JD Group divisions, subsidiaries, and external suppliers.

 

Key skills/requirements include:

  • Two years + experience within a fast-paced commercial environment (preferably via P2P/accounts payable/receivable)
  • Strong communication skills – with the ability to inspire and influence.
  • Good understanding of purchase order and invoicing processes with the ability to troubleshoot, investigate and resolve issues.
  • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills are essential.
  • Diligent and dependable providing attention to detail.
  • Ability to create and deliver quality training materials to enhance efficiency and consistency.
  • Confidence to own problems/issues, propose solutions and ensure that deadlines and business goals are achieved within a constantly changing environment.
  • Dedication to review and improve existing processes and push through changes where required to the rest of the business.
  • Experience of engaging and building relationships with business stakeholders from multiple divisions (e.g. Finance, Property, Retail, Marketing, Technology etc.)
  • The ability to successfully balance role objectives with the changing needs of our retail businesses and divisional colleagues.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Engaging with internal departments and colleagues to enable efficient use of the P2P system to all JD divisions and territories.
  • Work collaboratively with stakeholders across the Group division providing P2P support and training.
  • Ongoing training support for users and suppliers as appropriate, producing support training materials where relevant.
  • Provide support to the Accounts Payable Team and external suppliers with supplier and invoicing queries.
  • Update Coupa platform with new cost centres, user profiles and addresses.
  • Support the management of major P2P software updates - cloning/testing.
  • Provide scheduled and ad-hoc reports to relevant JD Divisions.
  • Support the Property and Finance team with Capex budget management administration.
  • Ad-hoc tasks as required.

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We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
 
Thank you for your time
 


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Other details

  • Job Family Head Office Colleague
  • Pay Type Salary
  • Employment Indicator Fixed Term Contract
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  • JD Sports- Head Office, Warwick House, Bury, Bury, United Kingdom