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By Ashley Cox
If you know anyone looking for a fresh start in 2025, CPC has a number of roles available, as we continue our work to support and enhance the UK education sector and its students.
Appropriately for our sector, one of numerous attractive facets of a career at CPC is a proactive approach to learning and development, providing our people with educational and vocational growth opportunities.
Over time, CPC has established and maintained a strong and proven ‘grow your own’ philosophy and the organisation is persistently eager to back its staff each step on their professional development pathways.
Offering colleagues time, support and options to plot their best foot forward, CPC's words are robustly backed by their actions, including the access to a generous personal training budget.
Investing in employees above and beyond their monthly salaries, this priceless funding allows members of CPC's team to acquire door-opening qualifications and accrue new skills in the job.
As a result, recruits can unlock potential and grow within their role, making a new CPC career as much of a journey as a destination - and one where staff can steer the course.
An employer of specialist procurement staff based across the United Kingdom, CPC has supported a host of colleagues through their CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) qualifications.
However, development opportunities are not limited to those in procurement functions, with CPC able to initiate training in a range of broader fields, including finance, compliance, software and IT, sales and marketing and leadership and management.
Among further initiatives, staff members have been able to train as mental health first aiders to provide potentially invaluable help, advice and direction to colleagues, with applicable learning and development resources accessible via its staff intranet platform.
From soft skills to specialisms, CPC can serve as an effective facilitator of personal and professional growth, with paid study leave one of the various accessible staff benefits.
Existing in the education sphere, it is only fitting CPC places an emphasis on education and, whether inspiring our team via ED&I awareness, informing the 10,000+ CPC membership of a beneficial upcoming webinar or directing visitors to our bank of online resources, our learning mentality extends both to and beyond those who work for us.
In 2024, CPC scheduled a host of Procurement Advisory Group (PAG) meetings and seminars, collaborating in person and online, enabling pooling of procurement knowledge and empowering self-education, in turn.
Elsewhere, multiple members of staff have advanced within the company to senior procurement management roles, backed by the safety net of learning and development help CPC puts on offer.
CPC Managing Director, Darren Lowe commented: “Our work environment is set for ambitious individuals to develop themselves in a rewarding career.
"We heavily invest in the principles of training for all and work hard to develop a culture in which you’re empowered to do the best job possible.... I’m delighted we can help support our people”.
Discover the latest roles available at Crescent Purchasing Consortium via our Careers section.