Job Title: Procurement Officer
Actual Annual Salary: £39,649 - £42,301 (CLF Grade F)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, All year-round
Provisional Start Date: October 2025
Your opportunity to shape procurement excellence across our trust
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Procurement Officer to lead and support procurement activities across our central team and academies. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative and forward-thinking finance function, where your expertise will directly contribute to achieving best value, reducing risk, and improving service delivery for staff and students across the Cabot Learning Federation.
In this role, you’ll work closely with senior leaders, academy teams, and external suppliers to deliver compliant and effective procurement processes. You’ll be instrumental in shaping procurement strategy, managing contracts, and ensuring that procurement activities align with legal requirements and organisational goals.
About you:
You will have:
- Strong knowledge of UK and EU procurement regulations, with a commitment to staying up to date with best practices and legal compliance.
- Demonstrable experience across the full procurement cycle, including tendering, contract negotiation, and supplier performance management.
- Excellent analytical and decision-making skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify savings opportunities, and influence procurement outcomes.
- Confidence in building relationships and providing expert advice to a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and external providers.
- Proficiency in e-procurement systems and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- A Diploma in Procurement and Supply and membership of CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply).
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification prior to submitting an application.
Why work in CLF’s Central Finance Team?
As a Procurement Officer, you’ll be a key part of our Central Finance Team – a collaborative and high-performing group that supports the financial health and operational efficiency of our trust.
We offer:
- A chance to lead procurement projects that have a real impact on education outcomes.
- Opportunities to work across a diverse portfolio of goods, services, and works.
- Flexible, hybrid working from home and our Kingswood, Bristol office.
- Career development and progression opportunities within the Central Team and wider trust.
- A supportive environment that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 35 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing Date: 26 August 2025 @11.59pm
- Shortlisting: 29 August 2025
- Interviews: 10 September 2025
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Skilled Worker visas cannot be sponsored through this role, as it does not meet the requirements set out by government.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
The Cabot Learning Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will undergo a comprehensive pre-employment checking process, including an enhanced DBS check (including a further check against the appropriate barred list), references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, child disqualification, prohibition from teaching/management and online checks. You must also tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
