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Procurement Apprentice , Apply From: 11/08/2025 Learning Provider Delivered by WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE Employer The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge Vacancy Description

Join us at the world-leading CRUK Cambridge Institute. We're a unique department of the University of Cambridge, core funded by Cancer Research UK's charitable activities, and we're eagerly searching for our new Procurement Apprentice.

Procurement at the CRUK Cambridge Institute is a small team passionate about delivering value for money and promoting sustainable practices. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of purchasing processes, providing timely, accurate and professional support to key stakeholders.

The role includes completing the Level 3 Procurement Apprenticeship qualification using the skills and knowledge that you will have built up to complete your projects and assignments.

The post holder will support the procurement team by ensuring high quality administrative support within a range of areas:

• Supporting a wide range of purchasing activities such as reviewing and approving purchase requisitions with "low value/risk contracts", purchase order amendments and cancellations.
• Onboarding new suppliers on behalf of the wider team.
• Email management within the team by creating and managing folders by supplier, topic, colour code for priority or follow up, archiving old emails, using templates or standard responses for related questions.
• Order expediting by tracking deliveries, responding to internal queries about order status and resolving any delays or changes in order status.
• Understanding of the University Financial regulations with reference to purchasing, internal policies and procedures, to educate the wider team and adopt commercial best practice.
• Collating relevant information and accurate statistical data as required for reporting.
• Provide first line response to purchasing-related queries and support contract and supplier management activity across a range of commercial areas.
• Building excellent working relationships with peers, colleagues and suppliers.

Key Details Vacancy Title Procurement Apprentice Employer Description The School of Clinical Medicine currently employs nearly 3,000 people, spanning all varieties of staff type from Academic Professors to administrative support.The School aims to provide leadership in education, discovery and healthcare. It will achieve this through; inspirational teaching and training, outstanding basic and clinical research and integration of these to improve medical practice for both individual patients and the population.The School will:Through inspirational teaching and training, educate individuals who:will become exceptional doctors or biomedical scientistscombine a depth of scientific understanding with outstanding clinical and communication skills demonstrate a caring, compassionate and professional approach to patients and the public andare equipped to become future international leaders of their profession.Through its commitment to the pursuit of excellence, support scientists of international standing in basic and clinical research aiming to:understand fundamental biology and thereby the mechanisms underlying disease integrate basic and clinical researchapply a rigorous mechanism-based approach to clinical problems andinnovate to solve the health challenges of our society. Vacancy Location Cancer Research Uk, Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0RE Wage Frequency Custom Number of Vacancies 1 Vacancy Reference Number Key Dates Apply From 11/08/2025 Closing Date For Applications 2025-08-:59:59 Interview Begin From Possible Start Date 2025-09-:00:00 Training Training to be Provided

• The learner will be studying the Procurement and Supply Assistant Level 3Apprenticeship Standard qualification.
• Day release to West Suffolk College.

Learning Provider WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE Skills Required

Communication skillsIT skillsInitiativeOrganisation skillsLogicalTeam workingCustomer care skillsAttention to detail

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