Job Description
Key Responsibilities: You will have a variety of responsibilities over the apprenticeship including a rotation across various roles within the broader Group Procurement team.Areas include;.
1. Sourcing Process: Carry out analysis of selected spend areas, including price benchmarking, supplier reviews and market analysis. Involvement in planning negotiations and engaging with suppliers to purchase goods and services
2. Procurement Systems: Support the maintenance and updates of procurement systems and databases that underpin our work and provide critical information about our spending across the organisation
3. Purchase Requisition Processing: Process and approve purchase requisitions from various departments.
4. Supplier Performance Monitoring: Help monitor supplier performance, including on-time delivery, quality, and cost-effectiveness.
5. Spend Data Analysis: Support the Procurement Manager to analyse tail spend, identify spend categories, and use procurement principles to reduce, consolidate, and simplify spend categories.
6. Risk Management: Assist in identifying and mitigating risks in the supply chain, including supply shortages or price volatility.
QualificationsWhat we're looking for
7. To qualify for the programme, you must be aged 16 or over and live in England. You cannot hold a degree qualification in any subject.
8. We’re not expecting prior industry experience or in fact any work experience; just a willingness to learn and a positive attitude
9. We will show you the L&G way. You’ll be in induction initially so, you’ll have the tools you need before you start helping our customers and clients.
10. People who love helping people! People who are straightforward, ambitious, authentic, collaborative, and purposeful.
11. Strong communication and administration skills and passion to support customers, whatever their personal circumstances.
12. Confidence in using a desktop or laptop and experienced in using MS Office.
Additional InformationWhat is the assessment process?
Our Assessment process typically involves the following stages, but may vary slightly from scheme to scheme. Application form
13. Captures essential information from candidate and is an opportunity to provide their CV
Online tests
14. Includes multiple choice questions and a video interview. The online test asks a number of behavioural questions to help us understand more about candidates' strengths. There is also an analytical component which assesses numerical reasoning skills. In the video interview, we will ask 3 core questions focusing on motivation to join L&G, as well as the candidates approach to learning.
Assessment centre (either face to face or virtual) comprised of:
15. Group Exercise - candidates are given a task to work on in groups of up to 6 and observed
16. Interview - Conducted by 2 assessors, 45 minutes including time for questions from the candidate, questions include competency and commercial based questions
17. Presentation - 15 minutes in duration, 10 minutes to present and 5 minutes for questions from assessor
Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you. Share this article