Group Technology Procurement Coordinator

Csod; Swindon; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Private healthcare

Enhanced pension plan

Life assurance

Share Ownership Plan (optional)

Onsite parking

Group Inclusion Plan

Job summary

Spirax Group in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, seeks a Group Technology Procurement Coordinator to drive software licensing, cost reductions, and licence optimisation within the Group IT function.

The role focuses on data gathering, supplier liaison, and process improvement across multiple regions, with exposure to sustainability initiatives and governance. A proactive, organised approach is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement administration, software licensing, or contract administration.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to gather, analyse, and present data to support decisions.
• Experience coordinating across multiple stakeholders or regions.
• CIPS qualification or interest in pursuing one.

Responsibilities

• Gather spend, licensing, usage, and contract data to support cost-saving and contract consolidation initiatives.
• Identify unused software licences and opportunities to improve licence utilisation and reduce costs.
• Support software licence migrations and renewals, including pricing coordination.
• Raise and track purchase orders and support procurement administration activities.
• Contribute to sustainability initiatives through data collection and reporting.
• Collaborate with Finance and other teams to improve procurement processes.

Skills

Procurement admin

Data analysis

Stakeholder coordination

Software licensing

Contract administration

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

CIPS qualification

Tools

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• Gathering spend, licensing, usage, and contract data to support cost-saving and contract consolidation initiatives.
• Identifying 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 data.
• Identifying 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 administration.
• Strong 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 locations.
• A 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:

• 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 relationships.
• Are 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 initiatives.
• Work 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.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 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, and 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 www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.

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.