Procurement Graduate

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We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Procurement Graduate to join our Procurement team, with roles based nationwide. Whether you are finishing university or looking for the next step in your career, this is a great place to develop your skills, confidence and future career.

Starting Salary:£30,000 per annum (Subject to review)

Location:Nationwide (Sheffield, Ireland, Manchester, North Yorkshire, East Midlands, Oxford)

Working hours per week:Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, 37.5 hours per week.

Our two-year Graduate Pathway will challenge and inspire you to reach your full potential and build your career, with a guaranteed permanent position to transition into on completion. Throughout the pathway, you will receive first-class mentoring and structured learning and development to support your professional and personal growth. We will also contribute towards a relevant professional qualification.

Join our supportive and inclusive team within Procurement, where you will work on projects that make a real difference to communities across the UK.

Amey's Procurement function is responsible for sourcing, purchasing, and managing the suppliers, materials, and services required to deliver infrastructure and public service contracts across the UK. The team works closely with operational, commercial, finance, and project teams to ensure the business achieves value for money while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, sustainability, and compliance.

Support procurement activity for contracts up to £50m PA.

Working within Amey's Procurement team, you will help identify material and service framework requirements across all business divisions and individual contracts. Using Amey's procurement process, you will gain experience across work-winning, category management and operational procurement through a structured graduate pathway.

• Apply the Amey Corporate Procurement Process.
• Work with Amey business divisions/contracts to identify Amey purchasing needs.
• Evaluate the marketplace and supply base to ensure Amey maximise our purchasing leverage.
• Ensure suppliers are evaluated to Amey requirements.
• Prepare detailed bid / tender documents for supply chain to price.
• Evaluate tenders, pricing submissions and prepare recommendation papers.
• Work with supply chain and negotiate to obtain most competitive pricing combined with security of supply / service, considering quality, whole life costing and risk profile.
• Ensure appropriate agreements are in place to enable Amey to transact with suppliers to support our operational contracts.
• Achieve and report procurement cost savings.
• Work with Transaction Services Master Data team to ensure robust procurement data in SAP.
• Support the Business Divisions with sound procurement support.
• Carry out 360-degree supplier reviews.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, keen to learn and ready to develop their career within a supportive and collaborative team.

• Minimum 2:2 degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Business Studies/ Business Management Degree or a related discipline.
• Membership of, or prepared to work towards a corporate membership of CIPS.
• Full UK driving licence.
• A fully committed team member.
• An effective communicator and negotiator.

Please note that successful applicants will be required to undergo drug and alcohol testing, in line with our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant working environment.

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