Procurement Administrator

Murphy is recruiting for a Procurement Administrator to join our growing Infrastructure team, delivering a major water infrastructure project in partnership with United Utilities, as part of the AMP8 programme.

Murphy is a long-standing delivery partner to leading water clients across the UK and Ireland, including Thames Water, Severn Trent, Northern Ireland Water, Yorkshire Water, SES Water, Bristol Water, South East Water, and Uisce Éireann, where we operate over 25 facilities under full DBOM contracts.

A day in the life of a Murphy Procurement Administrator:

• Assist in the creation, processing, and tracking of purchase orders for materials, equipment, and subcontract services.


• Maintain accurate procurement data within internal systems, ensuring compliance with framework and company requirements.


• Support the issuing and management of tender enquiries, quotations, and supplier documentation.


• Update procurement schedules, logs, and trackers to ensure visibility of order status and delivery progress. 


• Liaise with suppliers to request quotations, confirm lead times, and gather documentation where required.


• Support onboarding of new suppliers and subcontractors, including compliance checks and document collation.


• Assist in the resolution of invoice queries, delivery issues, and discrepancies.


• Provide day‑to‑day administrative support to the wider procurement team, including meeting organisation, document preparation, and data entry.


• Prepare reports, summaries, and procurement dashboards as required for internal stakeholders.


• Support continuous improvement initiatives to refine processes and enhance efficiency within the procurement function.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Previous experience in an administrative role, ideally within procurement, commercial, construction, utilities, or engineering.


• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.


• Good written and verbal communication skills.


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).


• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.


• Strong team player with a proactive and positive attitude.


• Experience working on major frameworks or in the utilities/water sector is desirable but not essential


• Knowledge of procurement processes, ERP systems, or purchasing platforms is desirable but not essential


• Familiarity with construction materials or subcontract procurement is desirable but not essential

What’s in it for you?

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service


• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review


• Above market rate contributory pension scheme


• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay


• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus


• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus


• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations


• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development


• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £5.8bn and £23m Invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is #MoretoMurphy

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call James Hing on 07353 134946 to discuss in more detail.  

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK