Procurement Assistant – New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald / Hybrid, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
The Procurement and Commercial Team are looking to recruit a Procurement Assistant on a part-time basis to play a key role in delivering our service to the wider Council.
You will be working as part of a friendly, professional and experienced team who are dedicated to making sure that the Council gets best value from our external spend.
With a mixture of home and office working, Alconbury Weald will be your main work base. You will be working 20 hours per week – please note that the salary shown is for full-time (37 hours) and you will be paid pro-rata for 20 hours per week. The salary shown is based on 2025/26 pay scales, the pay award for 2026/27 has not yet been confirmed.
Interviews will be on Monday 8th June at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald.
For more information or to discuss this opportunity please contact sarah.fuller@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
About you
You will be the first point of contact for people engaging with the Procurement and Commercial Team, so you should be supportive with excellent communication skills, adapting your working style to suit different audiences. You will be organised and able to plan and prioritise your own time, reacting positively to new challenges and changing circumstances. It is essential that you have very good IT and analytical skills.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.https://youtu.be/DDE1nplZttYVisit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers…