Commercial Procurement – Corporate

• Placements
• Further education and professional studies
• Duration
• Entry requirements and minimum criteria
• Applications

Our Commercial Procurement scheme is designed to transform talented graduates into competent and professional managers.

We do this through a variety of placements in a diverse mix of procurement roles.

Group Procurement

Strategic direction, support and advice: Group Procurement provides all three on the procurement of goods and services that TfL needs to carry out its day-to-day business.

Other activities include working with business partners to help them source products and achieve best value; providing strategic advice to internal customers on what, where and how to procure goods and services; managing relationships with major suppliers and leading on behalf of TfL with the implementation of responsible procurement policies and processes across the Greater London Association group.

Group Procurement also tenders, awards and manages contracts for a range of goods and services on behalf of modal businesses.

This includes information management, professional consultancy, construction, facilities and management.

Placements

During your first year, your placements will come from areas including:

• Procurement
• Information management procurement
• Major projects
• Group Property and Facilities
• Responsible procurement
• E-Sourcing
• Policy
• Supplier Relationship Management

Further placement options in London Underground (LU) may include:

• PPP performance and implementation
• In a PFI team within the Projects Directorate
• PPP commercial
• LU strategic planning
• PPP commercial

Further placement options in Group may include:

• Crossrail
• Tubelines
• GLA

In the past second year placements have included involvement in Olympic planning; the possibility of experiencing procurement from the "outside" is encouraged.

Further education and professional studies

We'll make sure that you benefit from a combination of learning by experience and structured technical, commercial and management training. This will help you to meet goals along the way, and take on more responsibility.

You'll also be supported to study and achieve membership of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

Duration

The two-year structured development programme is supported by formal and informal mentoring, regular feedback and reviews and a range of management skills training.

Entry requirements and minimum criteria

You'll need a minimum 2:1 honours degree in any discipline, but a business-related degree will be especially useful.

• Graduate in appropriate discipline with appropriate classification - 2:1 
• Ability to work on site if necessary
• High standards of written communication, verbal, numerical and inductive (ability to deal with ambiguous data) reasoning
• High standards of verbal communication
• Skilled in analysis and problem solving
• Keen on embracing change
• Collaborative, and keen to share information, knowledge and skills
• A strong focus on internal and external customers
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
• Keen to seek out new opportunities for learning and career progression and challenges
• Be able to identify the goals of any project and work steadily towards them
• Able to take a structured and methodical approach to any task, identifying priorities and setting deadlines

If you're successful you'll have to pass pre-employment checks before joining.

These will include reference checks, qualifications checks, right to work in the UK and in some cases a medical and a Criminal Records Bureau check.

Applications

Applications close on 3 January 2012.

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