Purchasing Specialist

Are you an experienced Procurement professional with public sector experience looking for your next role? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Procurement Specialist to join our expanding team and organisation. We are looking for a highly organised professional with a positive attitude, dedicated to achieving excellence in public sector procurement.

Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) is a not-for-profit purchasing consortium and we produce compliant purchasing frameworks and provide specialist advice on spending practices and value for money. Our longstanding history and dedication has earned CPC a reputation for excellence, which has allowed us to support public sector organisations with a combined non-pay spend of £441m throughout the 2023/24 financial year alone.

We provide competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for career development. The role is offered as a full-time position working with our clients based in West Midlands and Northampton with travel to Milton Keynes. We will consider applicants requiring part-time hours.

This role will require regular travel to our clients’ premises and involves working onsite directly with our educational clients to provide a fully comprehensive procurement and tendering service.

Successful applicants must be able to travel and must have public sector tendering experience.

They specialise in offering procurement consultancy services to the education sector. They offer bespoke procurement solutions to suit individual client needs and budgets, from one-off tendering to onsite managed services. You will be responsible for leading the process for procuring contracts for a variety of categories, including facilities, estates, finance, curriculum and ICT and other projects and services.

This role will contribute to embedding best practice, efficiency and effectiveness within procurement processes and decisions, ensuring compliance with UK procurement regulations and legislation and assisting us to achieve savings.

Reporting to the Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for offering a proactive and comprehensive service and advice on all aspects of procurement to all levels of personnel and manage relationships between our client and their diverse range of suppliers.

We provide competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for career development. We are looking for someone who has procurement experience within the public sector or the education sector and knowledge of public sector Procurement Act 2023.

Salary of up to £45,000 FTE per annum depending on experience.
~ Generous yearly discretionary bonuses following successful probation.
~ Remote working with visits to clients onsite when required.
~ Access to a local government pension scheme which includes death-in-service and ill health.
~ 38 days holiday (including three days additional leave for Christmas holiday closure and bank holidays).
~ Time off for volunteering opportunities.
~ Enhanced leave packages such as paid sickness, carers leave, bereavement and compassionate leave and maternity pay.
~ Support for wellbeing with access to 8 mental health first aiders and the opportunity to join an Employee Assistance Programme.
~ The chance to get involved in a number of working groups, such as Equality Diversity and Inclusion, Wellbeing and Sustainability.
~ The opportunity to join our Women's, Men's and Carer's employee support networks which provide safe spaces for colleagues to share their experiences.
~ Social and employee events throughout summer and at Christmas.
~ Has a programme of ‘giving back’ to the communities in which it is based and which it supports.
~ Travel expenses paid for any additional required travelling outside of your contracted place of work.


The deadline to apply is Sunday 21st December 2025.
We are a disability confident employer so if you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example, if you require information in different formats or if you have any accessibility issues, we’re more than happy to review our processes. As an equal opportunities employer, Crescent Purchasing Consortium is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.