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 report to the Head of Procurement and work closely with Group and divisional teams to lead multi-category savings programmes and support ERP integration. We’ll count on you to manage supplier relationships, lead sourcing activity, and turn business needs into practical procurement plans. You’ll embed best practices, drive continuous improvement, and help deliver on our ESG commitments.
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 strategic sourcing programmes and deliver measurable savings across multiple categories.
- You'll design and negotiate complex contracts to secure strong commercial terms and dependable service.
- Build and manage supplier relationships, ensuring performance and continuity of supply.
- Support the Head of Procurement with governance, capability building, and digital transformation.
- Help the team adopt new ways of working ahead of ERP integration.
- You'll work with stakeholders to define requirements and keep procurement plans moving.
- Identify and manage supply, commercial, and regulatory risks.
- You'll improve processes, tools, and reporting to boost efficiency and visibility.
- Champion sustainable procurement and contribute to ESG goals.
- Collaborate across the business to drive buy-in and deliver procurement success.
What you’ll bring
You'll bring proven procurement experience and a strong track record of delivering savings and driving efficiency. You'll be confident in sourcing, supplier selection, negotiation, and contract management, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels—including senior and executive teams. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills are essential, along with practical knowledge of the procurement lifecycle, supplier performance management, and commercial risk mitigation. Experience working with operational procurement and cross-functional teams will also help you hit the ground running.
Ideally, you'll hold a procurement qualification such as MCIPS and have experience working in project-based or engineering-led environments. Familiarity with ERP systems like SAP or Oracle, a degree-level education, and a passion for embedding sustainability and ESG principles into procurement decisions would be a real advantage.
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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