Interested in a career in Procurement, or ready to take the next step in your procurement journey? This is a great opportunity to join our Procurement & Commercial team in a developmental role where you'll build practical experience across sourcing, suppliers, supply risk and contracts with plenty of hands‑on learning from day one. You will support procurement activity across the firm, helping ensure our sourcing approach delivers good value, manages risk and supports business needs.
What You'll Be Doing
* Supporting procurement tenders, sourcing exercises and negotiations
* Helping with supplier engagement, evaluation and appointments
* Relationship (Stakeholder) management
* Organising and attending procurement meetings, taking notes and following up actions
* Pulling together information from systems such as iManage, the Contract Library and spend analysis tools
* Keeping our Contract Repository up to date
* Managing the procurement inbox and triaging queries [office.com]
* Supporting purchase order and invoice processes within Operations
* Helping roll out and improve supplier due diligence software and processes (proprietary system)
* Supporting our drive to sustainable procurement and working to identify ways to reduce our scope 3 emissions
What We're Looking For
* A strong interest in procurement and commercial activity with motivation to build a career in this area
* Organised and proactive, able to juggle tasks and priorities in a busy environment
* Strong attention to detail and confidence working with information and documentation
* Comfortable with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word and Outlook
* A positive, curious approach – happy to ask questions and learn as you go, with a willingness to learn.
Development
This role is designed to build your procurement foundation, with future support towards CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply) qualifications available for the right candidate.
Why Burges Salmon?
At Burges Salmon, we believe in empowering our people to make a difference. You'll join a firm that values integrity, innovation, and inclusion. We offer hybrid working, a supportive culture, and opportunities to grow your career in a forward‑thinking environment. We’re proud to have recently been named “Law Firm of the Year” at the Legal Business Awards 2025 and RollOnFriday's ‘Best Law Firm to Work At’ for four years running and one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024. We’re also Platinum-accredited by Investors in People for our commitment to developing our people.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an accessible recruitment process and guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. We're happy to discuss flexible working options for this role.
Interested in applying or want to learn more? The full job description is linked below. If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to get in touch with Ayesha Arshad, Resourcing Specialist, at abhishek.burgh@yahoo.com.
We encourage early applications and may close the vacancy once sufficient interest has been received.
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