Procurement Specialist
Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DA9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
19 December 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 hours per week, Monday – Friday, all year round. 2 or 3 days per week at Copthall House and also supplier visits necessary.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 6/SO1 £34,487 - £39,268 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a proactive and commercially minded Procurement Specialist to join our dynamic Procurement Team. In this pivotal role, you will help support the delivery of our Procurement Strategy through effective supplier relationship management, robust compliance reporting, and high-quality procurement support across the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong analytical skills, excellent stakeholder engagement abilities, and a genuine passion for procurement to make a real impact. If you are driven, detail-focused, and ready to take ownership within a growing and supportive team, we would love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead supplier relationship management, including implementing SLAs/KPIs and conducting regular supplier performance review meetings.
- Manage end-to-end procurement exercises (RFQs, tenders, benchmarking) in line with the Procurement Act 2023 and organisational procedures.
- Provide accurate reporting and data analysis to support compliance, cost-saving identification, and strategic decision-making.
- Maintain and optimise procurement systems, including e-tendering and contract management platforms, ensuring data accuracy and efficient processes.
- Drive category management improvements, including ownership of the utilities category, purchase order scheduling, and delivering value-for-money outcomes.
Key Requirements:
- CIPS qualification (or working towards) with strong knowledge of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23).
- Proven experience leading supplier relationships and monitoring performance against SLAs and KPIs.
- Strong analytical and reporting skills, able to interpret data and present insights confidently.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement abilities, with the confidence to work across teams and build productive supplier relationships.
- Proactive, reliable and adaptable, able to balance reactive tasks with planned work while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
What the school offers its staff
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
- Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
- Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
- Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
- Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- Mollyking@orchardhill.ac.uk
Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.
Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.
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