Procurement Specialist

GÉANT Association

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Permanent or Contract opportunity 

Our world leading networks support some of the biggest science projects ever seen. Would you like to help us?

GÉANT is the leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe's economic growth and competitiveness.

The organization develops, delivers and promotes advanced network and associated e-infrastructure services, and supports innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst its members, partners and the wider research and education networking community.

We are looking for an exceptional Procurement Specialist to join our team in either a contract or permanent capacity, to work on inspiring procurement projects such as:

• Procuring new regional or multinational networks;
• Developing and implementing procurement strategies;
• Ensuring compliance and project governance in line with EU Procurement Regulations (OJEU);
• Aggregating demand across Europe acting as a CPB to establish new framework agreements;
• IT support/services agreements.

In this role you will be responsible for acting as a centre of excellence to GÉANT employees (and representatives from projects across Europe and Africa). You will also support the Procurement Manager in refining channels within GÉANT.

The primary focus of spend in the organisation is wholesale telecommunication services and equipment on a global basis, with complementary spend on IT (hardware, software and services) and ancillary goods and services to support our operations.

You will already be an experienced procurement professional, who is looking for their next challenge, with a desire to share best practice and support global project partners in complying with European Procurement Regulations. 

Proactive and results orientated, you will be able to deal with a broad range of business issues, including technical, financial, legal and contractual. An essential requirement is that you have strong experience of working on public procurements (OJEU) and ideally with Telecoms procurement experience.

Our staff are important to us, and our reward package, reflects this. 

Intrigued and want to learn more about us? Then please see our website www.geant.org for a more detailed job description.

To make an application please forward your CV and a covering letter to recruitment@geant.org for the attention of the HR Manager. For a further conversation about the role, please contact our Cambridge office on +44 1223 371300 and ask to speak to the HR Manager.

Employment businesses/agencies please note that referrals will not be accepted from employment businesses and/or employment agencies except where they have prior written authorisation from GÉANT’s HR Manager to make referrals in respect of this particular vacancy. Neither GÉANT Association nor GEANT Limited shall be liable for any fees claimed in respect of any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in the absence of the required written authorisation.