Career Opportunities at Queen's

Join a professional, outcome-driven team in a fast-paced environment. This role focuses on managing tendering, ensuring best value and compliance. You will support requisition and tendering processes, including procurement planning, expenditure analysis, tender documentation, panel guidance, and evaluation.

You will manage the communications with key staff groups, advising on policies, procedures, and pricing. You will coordinate and deliver procurement training, ensuring up-to-date materials and best practices are communicated.

With a strong focus on compliance, you will support audits and reporting on procurement system performance. Maintaining procurement resources like templates and training materials will be key to the role streamlining processes.

This role suits a detail-oriented person who thrives in a fast-paced, results-driven team. If you want to make an impact in procurement, please apply today.

About the person:

• Holds or can demonstrate currently working towards a CIPS Diploma in Procurement and Supply (Level 4).
• Relevant experience in a role which undertakes analysis / interpretation of data and the checking of processes undertaken by internal clients or customers.
• Experience of purchase orders and/or tendering activities, including finding solutions to customer queries.
• Experience of providing guidance, and support to others reporting and highlighting relevant information and opportunities.
• Experience of using and competency in Office software packages, including MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) to an intermediate level. E.g. ability to develop, maintain and report via complex excel spreadsheets.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/ 

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.

Candidate Information

Further information for international applicants