Procurement Officer

Job Description

UK Research & Innovation

Salary: £37,841 per annum, plus £2,500 Specialist Allowance if MCIPS qualified

Band: UKRI Band D

Contract Type:
Fixed Term (12 Months)

Hours:
Full-time (Flexible working available)

Location:
Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire - Hybrid working available (Min 2 days per week in the office)

Closing Date: 25th August 2026

Interviews:
Week commencing 14th September 2026

UK Research & Innovation has a mission to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system that connects discovery to prosperity and public good. An important part of this mission is procuring the goods, services, and partners critical to achieving these aims. If you are interested in contributing and helping to shape the UK's world class research and innovation system to benefit lives, then UKRI has an exciting opportunity for a procurement professional to join the team supporting UKRI in all its procurement activities!

As a Procurement Officer, you will be joining an established, supportive team and will be involved in a wide variety of projects ranging from Research & Development, Professional Services, and Data and Technology. You will have the opportunity to shape commercial strategy, develop your own skills & experience, and contribute to projects that may have wide-ranging positive impacts for all.

UKRI are recruiting a Procurement Officer based at Harwell, Oxfordshire. This role is supporting world class cutting-edge scientific research at the UK's leading research campus.

Procurement Officer, working with and reporting to Procurement Managers, support research staff on all their complex procurement projects. Procurement Officers play a key part in ensuring that procurements are run in the correct manner and that our organisation obtains maximum benefit.

This Procurement Officer role will add to the wider, decentralised UKRI team. The role will be responsible to:

• Draft and Publish Tender Documents compliant with UK Public Sector Procurement Regulations.
• Maintaining Contract folders in a regulated environment with clear audit trail.
• Undertake multiple procurement sourcing/contracting actions as required using the most appropriate route to market in line with UKRI Procurement Policy.
• Provide advice when requirement must be directed to the shared service centre.
• Support Procurement Managers in Tender Evaluation Moderation Meetings.
• Provide local expertise and support to end-users to undertake a range of procurement tasks (varying in both value and complexity) including sourcing and contracting.

The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I).

• MCIPS Qualified or relevant experience or willingness to work towards MCIPS (S).

• Experience of working in a commercial role in an organisation in a regulated environment, working to standard operating procedures (S).
• Experience of using IT systems in a commercial role (S).
• Experience of updating and keeping organised records (S&I).
• Clear written English for accurately drafting contracts (S).
• Understand the context and meaning of terms and conditions (S).
• Be customer focused, able to deal with key stakeholder questions and queries (S&I).
• Willingness to adopt new practices in a changing regulatory environment (I).
• Accountable and forthcoming in communication to solve problems as a team (I).

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning.

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
• 30 days annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities
• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice
• Flexible working options

Plus, many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance.

For further information on our benefits please see:

Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

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