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Are you an experienced procurement, purchasing, sourcing, or buying professional looking to drive commercial value and support strategic sourcing initiatives?
Please read the following job description thoroughly to ensure you are the right fit for this role before applying.
In this role, you will support the delivery of procurement activities across a diverse range of goods, works, and services.
Working closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and contractors, you will play a key role in delivering value for money, driving commercial improvements, and ensuring all procurement activities are efficient and compliant.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading and supporting end-to-end procurement exercises, including market testing, RFIs, RFQs, ITTs, and mini-competitions.
- Providing procurement guidance to internal teams, collaborating with operations to develop specifications, evaluating supplier responses, and supporting contract awards.
- Managing supplier relationships and supporting contract performance reviews to ensure effective service delivery and continuous improvement.
- Identifying opportunities to achieve savings, improve efficiency, and deliver value for money across spend categories such as construction/maintenance materials, warehouse services, and waste management.
- Maintaining procurement workplans, project trackers, and savings reports, while assisting with benchmarking, market analysis, and value engineering.
- Supporting supplier onboarding processes and ensuring robust compliance, governance, and process improvement across procurement systems.
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What We’re Looking For
- Degree-level qualification such as Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Economics, or other relevant subject.
- Ideally CIPS membership, or actively working towards a professional procurement qualification.
- Significant experience within a procurement, purchasing, or supply chain environment.
- Previous experience in the construction or housebuilding industry, with a strong understanding of industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of the full procurement lifecycle, sourcing methodologies, tendering activities, and contract negotiations.
- Experience managing supplier relationships, contract performance, and procurement projects across multiple spend categories and locations.
- Strong IT literacy, including Microsoft Office applications and procurement systems.
- This role is working across sites in Liverpool, St Helens, and Warrington, so you must have a full UK Driving license and be happy to travel around this part of the North West as required.
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Why You'll Love This Job
- Competitive salary £41,529
- Company vehicle provided plus fuel card
- 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays, increasing by a day per year with service)
- Pension
- Health and Wellbeing services
- Enhanced parental pay and leave
- Company sick pay
If you've experience working within the construction, housing, and/or property development industry, and are looking for a new permanent, full-time role, then apply today.
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