Procurement Administrator in Beaconsfield

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

M Group Highways

At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK. We don’t just build roads and bridges - we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.

You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

Part of a team responsible for procurement administration support across all M Group Highways regions for civils projects, highways maintenance and street lighting sectors. This role underpins subcontract coordination by dispatching and tracking subcontract orders, ensuring approvals and document execution, maintaining accurate records and trackers, coordinating supplier pre-contract checks with SCC, and providing timely support to the wider commercial team.

What will you be doing?

• You’ll raise purchase orders for subcontract and related requirements in line with M Group Highways governance rules and approvals.
• You’ll prepare and dispatch subcontract orders once approvals are confirmed; arrange signature/execution by authorised signatories; maintain a live tracker of order status and returns.
• Liaise with the M Group Supply Chain Control (SCC) team and proposed subcontractors to issue, chase and log Pre-Evaluation/Pre-Contract Evaluation questionnaires, ensuring timely completion and communication to stakeholders.
• We’ll ask you to maintain central trackers (orders, PEQ status, commitments, accrual inputs, certificates), file executed agreements and keep price lists and supplier records up to date.
• You’ll act as a responsive point of contact for site commercial teams, SCC and supply-chain partners, ensuring clear, timely communication and issue resolution.
• Maintaining local data management systems and shared workspaces (e.g., CDEs, trackers), ensuring version control and audit readiness.
• You’ll follow company HSWE policies and champion safe, compliant ways of working in all procurement administration activity.

What you’ll bring

• Strong general IT capability with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word; familiarity with CPA and/or Oracle (or similar ERP) advantageous.
• Accurate, organised and methodical with a keen eye for detail and data integrity.
• Confident communicator able to convey clear, concise information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and willing to learn the composition and requirements of subcontract documentation and approvals.
• Able to plan workload effectively, meet deadlines and identify practical solutions to process inefficiencies.

Core Competencies:

• Team-oriented with the ability to work independently when required.
• Proactive, dependable and focused on right-first-time outputs.
• Well organised and efficient; maintains tidy records and auditable files.
• Positive about change and comfortable challenging constructively to improve processes.

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Personal Accident Cover

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.