Procurement Officer Degree Apprenticeship Birmingham, England
Job description
We’ll support you to become a fully qualified supply chain professional, as you support us to ensure that we’re spending wisely and obtaining great value for money for our organisation and our customers.
As a Degree Apprentice Procurement Officer within our Commercial team, we’ll support you through a five-year programme to develop the skills, knowledge and qualifications needed to ensure that our supply chain is robust, compliant and aligned to our strategic corporate aims.
Whilst you study for a BSc (Hons) Supply Chain degree at Coventry University, we’ll provide you with a broad range of opportunities to put your learning into practice - allowing you to gain hands-on experience as we develop you to be able to:
- Support tender processes for products and services - ensuring that our supply chain represents excellent value for money for our organisation and our customers.
- Work closely with suppliers to negotiate contracts and agree commercial terms.
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of suppliers, products, and services to ensure these meet contractual obligations and KPIs.
- Promote a first-class customer service, by providing timely and accurate commercial advice and supporting stakeholder engagement, ensuring a seamless, high-quality commercial service.
Having benefitted from a broad range of support, including guidance from seasoned industry professionals and our senior leadership team, your 5-year apprenticeship will culminate in you gaining sector leading experience, a recognised degree, and Chartered Supply Chain professional status with the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) – the industry gold standard for supply chain and procurement professionals.
Our entry requirements? To be eligible to apply, you must have achieved:
- Minimum 5 GCSE’s graded 9-4 (A** to C), including English and Mathematics, and:
- Minimum 3 A-level graded C or above or equivalent qualification.
Who are Midland Heart? We’re a large and ambitious housing organisation providing more people an affordable place to call home. We welcome colleagues from every walk of life, at every stage of their career. We expect a lot from our people but in return you can be assured of a great place to work, where you will be well rewarded and where great people are able to succeed. Whether you want to build your career with us, or use your experience to move on, we’re here to develop your potential.
Interested? Applying is easy – simply register on our candidate portal and complete our application form, which will enable us to start to get to know you.
Application close at 9:00am on Tuesday 28th February 2023.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss any adjustments you might need in order to be successful in this role.
