Job Description

Salary: £46,743 - £51,036 per annum, plus £2,500 Specialist Allowance if MCIPS qualified

Band: UKRI Band E
Contract Type: Open ended

Hours: Full-time
Location: Cambridge

Closing Date: 24th November 2025

About the role

UKRI are recruiting for a Procurement Manager to be based at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge

Your responsibilities:

• Provide Procurement advice and support to local stakeholders

• Draft and Publish Tender Documents compliant with UK Procurement Regulations

• Overall responsibility for medium-value complex procurements

• Undertake multiple procurement sourcing/contracting actions as required using the most appropriate route to market to deliver best value and compliance

• Provide expert procurement advice to local end-users including when procurement should be directed to the shared service centre

• Initial escalation route to Commercial Business Partner

Personal Specification

The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I).

Essential

• Experience of delivering multiple procurements in a regulated environment for a technical organisation (S&I)

• Experience of using e-sourcing systems (S)

• Experience of managing own workload independently (I)

• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written (S&I)

• Demonstrable behaviours of tact and diplomacy with evidence of stakeholder management to achieve positive outcomes for the organisation (S&I)

• Willingness to adopt new practices in a changing regulatory environment (I)

• Accountable and forthcoming in communication to solve problems as a team (I)

Benefits

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning.

A list of benefits below:

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme

• 30 days annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days

• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities

• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice

• Flexible working options

Plus, many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance.

For further information on our benefits please see:

Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Please apply online, if you experience any issue applying, please contact Recruitment@ukri.org

Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to The Home Office for the application before you start your role with us. UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/how-much-it-costs or contact Recruitment@ukri.org.