Procurement Apprentice - Level 4 - Stockport

Level: 4


Employer: OCU Group


Location: 6 Greek Street

You’ll support the procurement team with sourcing, supplier selection, and contract management while helping to analyse data, compare suppliers, and ensure the best value. Alongside this, you'll build strong working relationships with internal teams and external suppliers.

Duration: 1 Year 6 Months

Expected start date: 07/09/2026

Hours per week: 40 hours

Wage: (Annually)

Job role includes

  • Support the procurement team with sourcing, supplier selection, and contract management
  • Analyse data to compare suppliers and ensure best value
  • Build strong working relationships with internal teams and external suppliers

About employer

OCU Group is one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, delivering complex projects across power, utilities, water, and digital infrastructure. With sales growing five-fold to £1.1bn over the last five years, we are expanding both organically and through acquisitions, including recent growth in Australia and New Zealand.

For experienced professionals, OCU offers meaningful responsibility, the chance to influence delivery, and career progression in a business that invests in capability, autonomy, and high performance.

For those starting their careers, we provide structured routes through apprenticeships, graduate programmes, and training academies, with hands-on experience on real projects and supportive mentors to help you learn and progress.

We value safety, integrity, collaboration, and doing things properly and we support people who want to make a tangible impact.

  • weighting: Essential
  • qualificationType: A Level
  • subject: A Levels or equivalent, typically 2 A Levels
  • grade: A-C

    Anyone looking to build a long‑term future in procurement/ buying. 

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Team working

Vacancy title

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Duration: 18 months

Expected start date: 28/3/2022

Hours per week: 37.5 hours

Wage: 146.25 (weekly)

Job role includes

  • Explore what an apprenticeship is and how they work.
  • Understand what it means to be an apprentice.
  • Discover different apprenticeship types, get application hints and tips, and apply for vacancies.

About employer

Employer description

  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to prioritise tasks
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to prioritise tasks
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to prioritise tasks
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to prioritise tasks
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Good problem-solving skills