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This is an early-career opportunity for someone who enjoys working with data, asking good questions and turning complex information into practical insight.\nYou will support spend reporting, supplier intelligence, sourcing activity and responsible procurement work. A key part of the role is helping the team respond to stakeholder and bid questions about the supply chain, environmental sustainability and social value.\nYou do not need to be a traditional procurement specialist. We are open to candidates from procurement, data analytics, ESG, sustainability or social value backgrounds who are proactive, comfortable learning and keen to contribute across varied projects.\nWhat You’ll Do\nMaintain and improve the quality of procurement data across supplier, spend and contract records.\n\nBuild and interpret spend reports and dashboards for procurement leaders and stakeholders.\n\nSupport sourcing activity with baseline analysis, bid evaluation models and supplier insight.\n\nProduce supplier segmentation, scorecards and performance reporting.\n\nCollect and report supplier sustainability information, including environmental and social value data.\n\nSupport government and other bids by answering supply-chain and responsible-procurement questions.\n\nProvide category and market intelligence to support negotiations and sourcing decisions.\n\nIdentify opportunities to improve and automate source-to-pay processes.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nStrong Excel capability and confidence working with large, complex datasets.\n\nAbility to interpret data, identify useful insight and communicate findings clearly.\n\nUnderstanding of environmental sustainability, ESG or social value topics.\n\nAround one to three years of experience in a corporate environment, or equivalent relevant experience.\n\nA proactive and adaptable approach, with the confidence to learn new tools and take on varied work.\n\nStrong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.\n\nExperience in procurement operations, analytics, supplier management or a transferable analytical role.\n\nFamiliarity with Power BI or Tableau is useful; Tableau can be learned in role.\n\nCIPS study or qualification, sourcing-event support, supplier due diligence or ESG reporting exposure is helpful but not essential.\n\nAn interest in AI-enabled working and process improvement.\n\nLocation & Working Pattern\nHybrid. 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