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Procurement Apprentice

University of Cambridge • Cambridge, England, United Kingdom • £19.78k / year • 1w ago

Join us at the world-leading CRUK Cambridge Institute. We're a unique department of the University of Cambridge, core funded by Cancer Research UK's charitable activities, and we're eagerly searching for our new Procurement Apprentice.

Procurement at the CRUK Cambridge Institute is a small team, passionate about delivering value for money and promoting sustainable practices.

The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of purchasing processes, providing timely, accurate and professional support to key stakeholders.

The role includes completing the Level 3 Procurement Apprenticeship qualification using the skills and knowledge that you will have built up to complete your projects and assignments.

The successful candidate will support the Procurement team by ensuring high quality administrative support within a range of areas:

Supporting a wide range of purchasing activities such as reviewing and approving purchase requisitions with "low value/risk contracts", purchase order amendments and cancellations.
Onboarding new suppliers on behalf of the wider team.
Email management within the team by creating and managing folders by supplier, topic, colour code for priority or follow up, archiving old emails, using templates or standard responses for related questions.
Order expediting by tracking deliveries, responding to internal queries about order status and resolving any delays or changes in order status.
Understanding of the University Financial regulations with reference to purchasing, internal policies and procedures, to educate the wider team and adopt commercial best practice.
Collating relevant information and accurate statistical data as required for reporting.
Providing first line response to purchasing-related queries and support contract and supplier management activity across a range of commercial areas. Building excellent working relationships with peers, colleagues and suppliers.

Fixed-term: 24 months.

Closing date: 12th August 2025

Interview date: the week commencing 18th August 2025

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic disclosure (criminal records check) check and a security check.

All applications for this vacancy are being handled by the training provider for this apprenticeship, West Suffolk College. Please follow this link to the national apprenticeship website to apply.

https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/VAC1000333612

Please quote reference SW46736 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.