Procurement Specialist

6 months ago


Chesterfield, United Kingdom CPL Group Full time

**Are you a procurement professional looking for a new opportunity?**

**What’s the role?**

You will work with our education sector client to achieve public sector procurement excellence. You will manage the clients’ tendering and contract requirements, provide sound procurement advice and excellent customer service. You will be an organised individual who can deliver our services with a smile.

Reporting to the Procurement Manager you will be responsible for leading the tendering process for a variety of expense categories, projects and services. You will help our clients to meet the requirements of PCR 2015 and their own internal regulations. You will work with the client’s stakeholders to draft tender packs to ensure contracts placed achieve value for money, cost savings, where available, and improved service levels.

**Who are we?**

CPL Group is officially recognised as a “Great place to work”. Owned by the education sector, and run for the education sector, it’s CPL’s team and our heritage that has earned us our reputation for excellence. The CPL Group of companies comprises 3 separate organisations, Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC), Tenet Education Services and Tenet Procurement Services.

This role will be working within the Tenet Education Services team (part of the CPL Group), offering procurement consultancy services to the client. Formed in 1994, Tenet have an enviable record of delivering improvements, transformations, compliance, and value for money to schools, colleges, academies, and universities across the UK. We actively support organisations with a combined non-pay spend of over £500m, which means that our team have a vast amount of experience procuring and managing a wide range of contracting for goods and services. Owned by the education sector, and run for the education sector, it’s our team and our heritage that has earned us our reputation for excellence.

At CPL Group, we are committed to building an engaging and inclusive culture that empowers our people to thrive and grow. In return for your dedication, we offer a wide range of benefits, including:

- A salary of up to £45,000 FTE which will be dependent on our salary banding.
- Opportunities to progress based on our inhouse procurement and leadership development programmes.
- 37 days holiday (including Christmas holiday closure and bank holidays).
- Agile and flexible working.
- Annual pay reviews.
- Yearly performance related bonuses of up to £3,000.
- Travel expenses and free parking.
- Enhanced leave packages such as paid sickness, bereavement and compassionate leave, maternity and paternity pay.
- Financial support towards membership subscriptions and fully funding CIPS qualifications.
- Join a great company pension.
- Utilise our 'Cycle to work' scheme.
- Support for wellbeing with access to 9 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 Women, Equality Diversity and Inclusion, Wellbeing and Sustainability.
- Lots of CPD opportunities and time given to all employees to complete CPD throughout the year.
- Social and employee events throughout summer and at Christmas.

This role can be either part-time (4 days) or full-time (5 days) and is a remote role with occasional travel to our client in Chesterfield. If you are a skilled and experienced Procurement professional with the ability and/or qualifications to complete all aspects of this role then we would love to hear from you.

Please click on the following link for the job description of this role: Recruitment Pack_ Chesterfield-2.pdf

**CPL Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to Equality and Diversity.



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