Procurement Manager

Are you an experienced Procurement professional with public sector experience looking for your next management role?

 Do you want to make a real difference to the education sector? 

Then we have an exciting role for you working within a growing charity organisation!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Procurement Manager to join our expanding team and organisation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and we are interested in you as an individual. We are looking for a highly organised professional with a positive attitude, dedicated to achieving excellence in public sector procurement.

Who are we?

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.

What’s the role?

The role is offered as full-time position (applicants seeking part-time are also welcome to apply).

You will be responsible for offering a pro-active and comprehensive service, advising on all aspects of procurement. You will take full management responsibility for client accounts including the timeliness, and quality of procurement exercises, including conducting exercises personally where appropriate. Working with the procurement teams, you will set priorities, support, and provide leadership on the process for procuring contracts for a variety of categories, projects, and services for clients. You will support the development and delivery of the company strategic procurement programme. 

This role will contribute to embedding best practice, efficiency and effectiveness within procurement processes and decisions, ensuring compliance with current PCR’s and future UK legal obligations.  You will assist the company to achieve value for money and savings targets for our clients and support the team to provide outstanding procurement services to all clients and members.

You will be responsible for the full operational and strategic management of the Procurement team allocated to you. You will drive a high performing, engaged team to deliver the procurement strategic objectives whilst balancing value delivery for our customers with company commercials.

The role is predominately home-based, but will require some travel to visit clients within the region as required.

What makes us different?

We're an award-winning organisation recognised and certified as a “Great place to work”. We offer a collaborative, exciting environment where your ideas are heard and valued. We provide competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for career development. We're making a real

difference and you can be a part of it! This is just the beginning, we're constantly growing and evolving and we're always looking for passionate individuals who share our vision!

This is just the beginning, we're constantly growing and evolving and we're always looking for passionate individuals who share our vision!

Person Specification

We are looking for someone who has extensive procurement experience within the public sector or the education sector and strong knowledge of public sector Procurement Act 2023. We also require someone who is confident with managing a team and is qualified to ILM level 3 or willing to work towards this.

In return for your dedication, we offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Salary of up to £53,000 FTE per annum depending on experience.

• Generous yearly discretionary bonuses following successful probation.

• Hybrid working with visits to clients onsite when required.

• Access to a local government pension scheme which includes death-in-service and ill health.

• Opportunities to develop through our inhouse development programmes and through external learning with full support given to achieve MCIPS.

• 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.

Next Steps

The deadline to apply is Friday 31st August 2025.

Following successful application, we will invite selected candidates to meet for an interview via Teams with our hiring managers.

If you like what you’ve read, please don't delay in applying as we may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications. Please click on the link below for the job description.

https://www.thecpc.ac.uk/docs/procurement-manager-jdpdf

Please note that VISA sponsorship is not offered for this role.

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. Please feel free to get in touch with us at peopledevelopment@thecpc.ac.uk.

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.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.