Procurement Specialist
Salary £ 37,700
South Crofty Mine
Vacancy listed 12/09/2025
Application deadline 12/10/2025
Details
The Company

Cornish Metals is an AIM listed Company working towards re-opening the 100% owned and fully permitted South Crofty underground tin mine in Pool, Cornwall.

In March 2025, we raised £57.4 million, anchored by the UK’s National Wealth Fund and Vision Blue Resources to advance South Crofty towards tin production once again. Tin is essential for electronics, renewable energy, and modern technology and demand is projected to increase by 30% in the next decade.

We are committed to ethical, responsible and domestic tin production and are proud to have strong local and national support.

Role purpose

The Procurement Specialist will play a key role in delivering efficient, compliant and value driven procurement to support Cornish Metal’s operational and strategic objectives. You will own end-to-end transactional procurement while contributing to strategic sourcing and category initiatives, ensuring continuity of supply, cost optimisation and alignment with business needs. This is an exciting opportunity to shape procurement processes in a dynamic mining environment and build long term value for the business.

Cornish Metals is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace. A copy of our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Policy is available on request.

Principle responsibilities/role tasks

Specific duties as part of the role include, but are not limited to, the following:

Procurement Delivery
 
  • Lead end-to-end procurement for a defined portfolio of goods, materials, and services across multiple categories as required. 
  • Deliver both strategic sourcing and transactional procurement activities, ensuring continuity of supply, cost efficiency, quality, and compliance. 
  • Conduct in-depth comparative analysis and adjudication of supplier quotations and proposals, evaluating total cost of ownership, quality, lead time, compliance, and risk to ensure best value selection. 
  • Expedite orders where necessary to ensure timely delivery and resolve supply delays, escalating issues where appropriate. 
  • Develop sourcing strategies and structure deals to meet business requirements. 
  • Lead assigned sourcing initiatives from low- mid-complexity, including full tender management and contract negotiation. 
  • Influence and align key internal stakeholders to group objectives while building strong supplier relationships.
  • Provide clear communication of procurement performance, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders.
  • Ensure procurement decisions support the overall business strategy and adapt to market, technology, and business changes. 

Supplier Management

  • Establish and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders. 
  • Conduct supplier risk assessments and implement corrective actions to minimise supply disruption. 
  • Ensure all supply agreements are underpinned by formal legal terms and conditions. 
  • Manage the full supplier lifecycle (onboarding, due diligence, qualification, risk scoring, performance review, and offboarding). Drive local supplier development and local economic development through procurement initiatives.
  • Monitor supplier compliance with ESG standards, and financial stability. 

Process Ownership

The Procurement Specialist will fully own and deliver all transactional procurement process flows, while contributing to strategic procurement in close collaboration with the Procurement Manager.
Strategic sourcing and category initiatives will be co-developed, whereas transactional activities will be under the Specialist’s sole responsibility.

Transactional Procurement Process Flows (Primary responsibility)

  • Procure-to-Pay (P2P): From requisition and budget check through to PO creation and, (in partnership with key stakeholders such as Stores and Finance), goods receipt, three-way matching, invoice approval, and payment. 
  • Plan-to-Procure: Demand forecasting, inventory triggers, and purchase requisition planning. 
  • Requisition-to-Order: Managing user requisitions to PO generation and supplier communication. 
  • Purchase Order Lifecycle Management: Amendments, change orders, cancellations, and PO tracking. 
  • Budget-to-Approval: Ensuring purchases are within authorised spend limits and routed to the correct authority. 
  • Exception-to-Resolution: Managing mismatches, rejections, urgent orders, and policy deviations. 
  • Expediting: Monitoring and following up on outstanding orders to ensure timely delivery.
  • Contract-to-Performance: From contract award to ongoing monitoring of SLAs, KPIs, delivery compliance, and renewal tracking. 

Strategic Procurement Process Flows (Collaborative responsibility)

  • Source-to-Contract (S2C): Supplier identification, RFQ/RFP management, evaluation, negotiation, and selection through to contract creation and approval. 
  • Category Strategy Development: Spend segmentation, market analysis, sourcing strategy design, and category plan execution. Innovation Sourcing / Value Engineering: Facilitating supplier-led innovation to deliver value beyond cost savings. 

Cornish Metals is an equal opportunities employer and reasonable adjustments will be provided.

Working Environment

This is a site-based role with regular attendance at the South Crofty mine site during standard business hours. While mainly desk based, it will involve regular movement around site for meetings, training, and project related activities including frequent interaction with Stores, Finance, Operations, and suppliers, as well as occasional off-site meetings or supplier visits.

Key relationships

The role will report to the Procurement Manager, but there will be frequent interaction with the General Manager, stores team, finance team, operational staff and regular contact with external suppliers and contractors.

Skills and experience

The key skills and experience which are expected for this role are:

Essential

  • Proven experience, ideally 5+ years, in sourcing across both materials and service categories. 
  • Proven capability of delivering deals from low- to mid-complexity, including full tender process management. 
  • Hands-on approach to deal execution, able to manage multiple sourcing projects end-to-end with minimal oversight. 
  • Highly organised and results driven, able to lead cross-functional deal teams. 
  • Skilled in negotiations with excellent communication skills. 
  • Ability to structure deals and develop sourcing strategies. 
  • Strong knowledge of end-to-end procurement processes and ERP/e-procurement platforms. 
  • Experience in understanding contracts and ability to draft contracts based on standard terms with specialist legal support. 
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines and deliver results. 
  • Strong numeracy, financial literacy, and market analysis skills.
  • Professional, collaborative, and highly adaptable. 
  • Current driving licence, or alternative ability to efficiently undertake the duties of the role and reliably travel to site. 

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working in a company in the extractive, construction or industrial sectors 
  • Familiarity with category management principles. 
  • CIPS qualification (or working towards). 
  • Awareness of ESG compliance requirements. 
  • Experience in using market-leading sourcing tools and systems. 
  • Be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint) etc. 

Salary

£37,700 per annum

Benefits 

  • Health & Dental Cashback 
  • Life Insurance 
  • Enhanced parental leave and sick pay 
  • Income protection insurance 
  • Enhanced pension contributions 
  • Employee Assistance Programme 
  • Personal days 

Hours of work and work location

Full Time 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:00pm. Some event participation may be required outside of these hours. Part time will be considered, minimum of 30 hours. 
Benefits

Health & Dental Cashback
Life Insurance
Enhanced parental leave and sick pay
Income protection insurance
Enhanced pension contributions
Employee Assistance Programme
Personal days

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