Plymouth Marjon University
Procurement Manager
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Procurement Manager
0.8 FTE / 28 hours per week
Grade 7, £31,027 - £34,785 (Pro-rata of 38,784 - £43,482)
Hybrid Role: at least 2 days per week onsite
Who we’re looking for:
We are recruiting a purchasing professional to blend professional purchasing expertise with higher-education governance, academic priorities, and public-sector compliance. You will be responsible for achieving excellent value for money whilst managing smooth procurement and purchasing activity to support the timely acquisition of the University’s goods, works and services.
You will use Commercial and Strategic thinking alongside an ability to implement ongoing improvement and some step change. Excellent communication skills are necessary as you will work across all levels of the whole organisation.
This role directly supports Marjon University’s mission by ensuring that every purchase—whether operational spend, research equipment, digital systems, or campus services—delivers value, quality, and long-term benefit to students and staff. It strengthens the core financial mission of value for money and financial resilience, enhances operational efficiency, and ensures compliance with sector-wide standards and procurement legislation.
What you’d be doing:
The Procurement manager leads strategic and operational procurement activity across Marjon University, ensuring best value for money, regulatory compliance, and alignment with academic, research, and campus-development priorities. You must be able and willing to roll your sleeves up and get things done. The role supports both timely day-to-day purchasing and long-term commercial supplier strategy, enabling the University to deliver high-quality services to students, staff, and partners.
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For our team, supporting us with core admin tasks to help things run smoothly. We need someone motivated and confident who is good at building positive working relationships, who has a passion for detail and accuracy, good digital skills & confidence, and great customer focus.
It is essential that you have previous procurement experience and even better if this is within an HE setting – however that isn’t a dealbreaker. We are more interested in recruiting someone who is enthusiastic, positive and able to apply their knowledge to a new organisation.
You’ll need to enjoy:
- Quickly building rapport with people: you’ll spend your day liaising with employees at all levels, as well as prospective suppliers; so you need to be personable, professional and enjoy building working relationships.
- Working quickly and methodically: we need someone who appreciates the need for consistent quick solutions in this role, and who has a good sense of working to timelines and within regulatory guidelines.
- Working to your values: we care about how people behave as well as what they achieve.
Where you’ll work:
In this role, you’ll be based in the Finance team, on our green campus in the north of Plymouth. We’re a small, close-knit team who work together closely to deliver an outstanding service to our colleagues from all business areas.
Our current hybrid working policy means you can work from home or on campus, but you will be required to maintain strong campus links and will work onsite at least 2 days per week, ideally 3.
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Application Process:
To apply for the position, please apply online at https://jobs.marjon.ac.uk/ and provide a supporting statement that demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the knowledge, qualifications, and experience sections of the job description.
Key Dates:
- Closing date: 14 September 2026 (at 11:59pm)
- Interview date: 30 September 2026
Supporting our people:
At Marjon, we are firmly committed to supporting every member of staff who works for us. Our Balance programme of health and wellbeing activities aims to help you to look after your physical health, nutritional health, mental health and social health.
We are keen to hear from a diverse range of applicants to support our goal to realise every individual’s potential. We are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’: candidates who declare a disability and who demonstrate on their application that they meet the essential criteria will be included on the shortlist.
For an informal discussion about the role please email peopleteam@marjon.ac.uk and a member of the finance team will get back to you as soon as possible.
We are currently unable to offer sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route for this position. We therefore welcome applications from candidates who already have the right to work in the UK. This includes individuals on alternative visa routes that permit employment, such as the Graduate visa.
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