Location: Warrington (Sale in the interim) and maybe a day a week thereafter
Employment type: Full Time
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
As a Procurement Specialist, you will play a key role in delivering Ipsum’s procurement strategy and supporting the Company’s growth. This hands-on role offers exposure to a broad range of activities, including developing savings registers, improving procurement systems, creating guidance documents, strengthening supplier and stakeholder relationships, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Reporting to the Head of Procurement, you’ll help shape the procurement function and ensure all initiatives align with Ipsum’s strategic goals. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced environment and enjoys driving meaningful change.
As a Procurement Specialist, you’ll drive value, efficiency, and insight across our procurement activity. Your role will focus on strengthening processes, improving data visibility, and building effective supplier relationships. Key responsibilities include:
You’re committed to delivering excellent service and value, with the confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders at all levels. You bring a solid understanding of procurement processes, regulations and systems, and you’re comfortable offering clear, practical guidance on best practice and compliance. Analytical and detail‑driven, you’re skilled at interpreting data, identifying risks, assessing supplier performance and spotting opportunities to streamline and improve. You thrive in fast‑paced environments and approach challenges with resilience, flexibility and a collaborative mindset.
In addition to your technical strengths, you’re confident negotiating with suppliers, defending commercial positions and driving continuous improvement across procurement activity. With hands‑on experience in process improvement, reporting and documentation, you maintain accurate audit trails, create helpful guidance materials and support strong stakeholder relationships. Proficient in Microsoft Office and experienced in end‑to‑end procurement reporting, you are committed to high standards and meaningful results. A relevant degree is desirable, along with experience in a similar procurement‑focused role.
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At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
