Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
As an organisation, there is little we don’t do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.
The Procurement function is undergoing an exciting transformation journey, deploying best in class processes, ensuring an innovative, reliable and cost-efficient supply chain that can grow with M Group to support delivery of our strategy.
Want to come and be a part of it?
You’ll work closely with the Head of Procurement, Group Procurement, and divisional teams to identify and deliver savings opportunities. We’ll count on you to lead sourcing activity, manage supplier relationships, and turn business needs into practical procurement plans. You’ll embed best practice, drive continuous improvement, and support our ESG goals.
The role requires attendance at the Warrington office 1–2 days per week; hybrid working for remaining days.
What will you be doing?
- You'll lead the charge on identifying and delivering procurement savings across the division.
- You'll run sourcing and negotiation activities to secure great commercial terms and reliable service.
- You'll build strong supplier relationships and take action when performance slips.
- You'll work with stakeholders to define needs and keep procurement initiatives on track.
- We'll count on you to ensure smooth handovers and supplier management post-contract.
- You'll manage risks to keep supply flowing and operations steady.
- Improve processes and reporting to boost efficiency and visibility.
- Champion sustainable procurement and help us hit our ESG goals.
- Collaborate across the business to drive buy-in and deliver results.
What you’ll bring
You’ll have solid procurement experience and a track record of delivering savings and driving efficiency. You’ll be confident in sourcing, negotiating, managing contracts, and working with suppliers to get the best outcomes. You’ll work closely with stakeholders—right up to executive level—so strong influencing and communication skills are key. We’ll look to you to bring practical knowledge of the full procurement lifecycle, supplier performance, and commercial risk management, and to collaborate with operational teams to make things happen.
Ideally, you’ll have a procurement qualification like MCIPS, experience with ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle, and a degree-level education. If you’ve worked in project-based or engineering-led environments and know how to embed sustainability and ESG into procurement decisions, that’s a real plus.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car (or allowance) and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you (and your family)
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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