Procurement Specialist
Procurement Specialist
Location: Surrey (Hybrid working)
Salary: £40k - £55k + Bonus + Package
Summary:
I’m working with a large, complex professional services and tech business going through a period of procurement transformation and growth. This is a great opportunity for an early-career procurement professional to build experience across sourcing, supplier management, contracts, data, risk and process improvement in a high-profile commercial environment.
This role would suit someone analytical, organised and commercially curious who wants to develop their procurement career in a business where the function is becoming more strategic, more data-led and more closely aligned to senior stakeholders.
Key responsibilities:
- Support contract administration, including maintaining accurate contract records, tracking changes and ensuring key documentation is up to date.
- Provide clear analysis on supplier, spend and performance data to help stakeholders make better commercial decisions.
- Support supplier performance management through KPI tracking, reporting and contract data analysis.
- Run lower-complexity sourcing activity, including RFQs, supplier comparison and selection support.
- Monitor supplier risks across areas such as resilience, financial stability, sustainability and wider market factors.
Key skills:
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build trust with stakeholders and suppliers.
- Analytical and detail-focused, with confidence using data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
- Organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple pieces of work at once.
- Curious about procurement technology, process improvement and how systems can make procurement more effective.
- An interest in developing a long-term procurement career, ideally with ambitions to work towards CIPS/MCIPS.
Why this role?
- Excellent opportunity to build broad procurement experience across sourcing, contracts, supplier management, risk and transformation.
- Join a business investing heavily in procurement capability, systems and process improvement.
- Work closely with experienced procurement professionals and gain exposure to a wide range of stakeholders and suppliers.