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Procurement Specialist 60k- exciting greenfield environment

Procurement Specialist 60k- exciting greenfield environment

  • Location

    London

  • Sector:

    Procurement

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £50000 - £58000 per annum + hybrid working/corporate benefits

  • Contact:

    Diane Marjoram

  • Contact email:

    Diane.Marjoram@1st-executive.com

  • Job ref:

    J692374_1770824112

  • Published:

    about 5 hours ago

  • Expiry date:

    2026-03-13

Procurement Specialist - Step into a true greenfield environment

Salary: upto 58k p/a + benefits

Location: London - hybrid 3 days per week in office

Fulltime| Permanent

Ready to fast-track your procurement career? Step into a true greenfield environment for more ownership, more exposure, and more impact! This isn't a back-office role. It's a career accelerator. If you're a driven procurement professional in the first 2-3 years into your Procurement career (either directs or indirects it doesn't matter), and you're hungry for more ownership, more exposure, and more impact - this is the opportunity where you won't just support procurement transformation… you'll help build it.

**There are a number of roles in the wider campaign across Group Procurement, so even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply to discuss further!**

There will be the creation of something ambitious. That means fresh thinking, new processes, smarter analytics, stronger supplier partnerships - and room for you to make your mark early.

This Role: This is a rare opportunity to join a procurement function in growth mode - shaping frameworks, influencing stakeholders, and driving measurable performance improvements across the business.

You'll work closely with Category Managers and senior procurement leaders, gaining exposure well beyond your experience level. Expect to:

  • Lead sourcing projects (across IT and non-tech (eg Marketing, HR, FM, Property)
  • Drive spend analytics and performance insights
  • Influence supplier strategies
  • Build category tools and templates
  • Develop commercial acumen fast

If you want to move from "supporting procurement" to being a procurement leader in the making, this is your next step.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll combine analytics, commercial thinking and stakeholder engagement to deliver real results:

  • Lead mid-value sourcing events and RFx processes
  • Analyse spend data and procurement performance to uncover opportunities
  • Maintain cost models, market indices and analytics dashboards
  • Generate market insights and supplier benchmarks
  • Conduct supplier and market analysis to support category strategies
  • Create performance reports and purchasing trend analysis
  • Improve tools, templates and processes to drive efficiency
  • Support supplier engagement and contract management activities

You won't just run reports - you'll turn insight into action.

What We're Looking For

You're likely 2-3 years into your procurement career and ready for bigger challenges.

You'll bring:

  • Strong negotiation and stakeholder communication skills
  • Passionate about working in an ambitious, changeable, people focussed business
  • Confident communicator with an engaging personality and an inquisitive nature
  • Strong analytical skills and confidence working with large data sets and extracting insights from procurement data
  • Knowledge of sourcing principles and supplier management
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Able to work autonomously
  • Degree educated

Most importantly, you're proactive, curious, and ambitious. You want to grow - fast.

What You'll Gain

  • Exposure to senior procurement leadership
  • Ownership of sourcing activity and supplier engagement
  • Real influence in a growing, evolving procurement function
  • Accelerated development in analytics, commercial strategy and stakeholder management
  • A culture that values initiative, collaboration and bold thinking

This is a place where early-career professionals can step up quickly - where performance is noticed and progression is earned.

*** applicants must be based in the UK to commit to hybrid working requirement and hold current/valid UK RTW***