Group Technology Procurement Coordinator

Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

27 days holiday allowance

3 days' volunteering leave

Comprehensive private healthcare

Enhanced pension plan

Life assurance

Share Ownership Plan

Job summary

Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC is seeking a Group Technology Procurement Coordinator to support IT procurement, licensing, and sustainability initiatives across the business. The role involves data‑driven cost reduction, contract consolidation, and supplier management with a global reach.

You will work with internal stakeholders across regions to optimise costs, drive process improvements, and ensure best practices in technology procurement while contributing to carbon and sustainability goals.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement administration, software licensing, or contract.
• Experience gathering, analysing, and presenting data to support decision‑making.
• Experience working with procurement systems.
• Experience coordinating activities across multiple stakeholders, teams, or geographic regions.
• CIPS qualification, or an interest in working towards one, would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and administrative support to ensure efficient delivery of procurement objectives.
• Drive contract consolidation, supplier rationalisation, and cost reduction.
• Assist with software licence migrations and renewals with stakeholder approvals.
• Raise and track purchase orders and support procurement administration activities.
• Support the implementation and ongoing use of procurement processes and best practices.
• Contribute to sustainability initiatives with data collection and reporting of emissions.

Skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder coordination

Procurement administration

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

CIPS qualification

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Procurement systems

Job description

Group Technology Procurement Coordinator

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Join a Growing Global IT Team

Are you highly organised, analytical, and looking for an opportunity to develop your career within a growing global technology function? We're looking for a Group Technology Procurement Coordinator to join our Group IT team and support a range of procurement, licensing, contract management, and sustainability initiatives across the business. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a collaborative team where your ideas are valued, your development is encouraged, and you'll gain exposure to global technology procurement activities. Working closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and colleagues across multiple regions, you'll play an important role in helping us optimise costs, improve processes, and drive value from our technology investments.

What You'll Be Doing

As Group Technology Procurement Coordinator, you'll provide operational and administrative support to ensure the efficient delivery of technology procurement objectives, helping to drive contract consolidation, supplier rationalisation, cost reduction, licence optimisation, and sustainability initiatives across the Group.

• Gathering spend, licensing, usage, and contract data to support cost‑saving and contract consolidation unused software licences and opportunities to improve licence utilisation and reduce costs.
• Supporting software licence migration projects, including user support and supplier liaison.
• Assisting with software renewals by collecting requirements, obtaining pricing, and coordinating stakeholder approvals.
• Raising and tracking purchase orders and supporting procurement administration activities.
• Supporting the implementation and ongoing use of procurement processes, procedures, and best practices.
• Assisting with software licence cost recharging activities and collaborating with Finance teams.
• Contributing to sustainability initiatives through the collection and reporting of carbon emissions opportunities to improve procurement processes and enhance operational efficiency.

What We’re Looking For

We're interested in people who are eager to learn, take ownership, and contribute to a growing team. You may already have experience in procurement administration, contract management, software licensing, or technology support and be looking for your next challenge. Ideally, you'll have:

• Experience in procurement administration, software licensing, or contract
• Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience gathering, analysing, and presenting data to support decision‑making.
• Experience working with procurement systems.
• Experience coordinating activities across multiple stakeholders, teams, or geographic
• CIPS qualification, or an interest in working towards one, would be advantageous.

What Will Make You Successful

You'll thrive in this role if you:

• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a friendly, customer‑focused approach.
• Are proactive, self‑motivated, and able to organise your workload effectively.
• Enjoy analysing information and using data to support decisions and improvements.
• Work collaboratively across teams and build positive working able to support others in driving actions through to completion.
• Take pride in accuracy, attention to detail, and delivering high‑quality work.
• Look for opportunities to improve processes and challenge existing ways of working constructively.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a growing and supportive global technology team.

Gain exposure to technology procurement, software licensing, supplier management, and sustainability with a wide range of stakeholders across multiple regions and business functions.

Contribute to cost‑saving, optimisation, and business improvement projects.

Develop your skills and create opportunities for future career progression, including professional qualifications and development opportunities.

Play a key role in helping the business maximise value from its technology investments while supporting wider sustainability objectives.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi‑national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate.

We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

• You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus)
• Flexible working
• 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays)
• 3 days' paid volunteering leave
• Comprehensive private healthcare
• Enhanced pension plan
• Life assurance
• Optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan
• Free onsite parking
• Flexible benefits
• Access to a personal discounts' portal

We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone's contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause‑friendly workplace principles and more.

Learn more at .

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer.