Procurement Assistant

Overview

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.

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

What will you be doing?

Your main duties will include:

• Obtaining and reporting on management information relating to procurement
• Supporting a range of initiatives focused on improving procurement practices and delivering efficiencies
• Supporting the team with procurement projects
• Providing procurement support and advice across the Council
• Becoming a super‑user for our e‑procurement system
• Supporting the delivery of procurement training and awareness programmes
• Managing procurement‑related workflows in our finance system

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 us

Cambridgeshire 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.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self‑organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy.

Visit 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.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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