Procurement and Compliance Lead

How You'll Make a DifferenceAs the Commissioning Manager for Procurement and Compliance, you will provide expert procurement, contracting, and compliance advice to commissioning colleagues. With experience in procurement or commissioning, you'll be passionate about getting things right, driving good governance and supporting services that make a real difference to people’s lives.Your role supports colleagues to develop compliant commissioning and contract management practices, ensuring the council achieves value for money, transparency, and effective partnership working in the delivery of department-wide commissioning priorities.What You Will Be DoingThe primary purpose of your role will be providing expert advice and guidance on procurement, contracting and governance across the People Directorate. You will monitor compliance with procurement legislation, council procurement rules, governance requirements and contract management processes. Support commissioning colleagues within the Adult Social Care Commissioning team, Housing and Public Health, you will plan, tender, and manage contracts and joint commissioning arrangements in line with legislation and the Council’s Constitution. Working collaboratively, you will provide sound expertise, advice and information to a range of senior customers throughout the council, advising and supporting on complex procurements. You will research and analyse opportunities for innovation and establish new and efficient ways of working, ensuring that council activity is lawful. You will oversee the contract register and ensure strong contract management arrangements are in place across the services. It will be your responsibility to lead and influence continuous improvement in commissioning processes, templates, and governance. What We Need From YouIt is essential that you have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care, public health, housing or business studies or other relevant subject or comparable experience gained in the workplace. You will have a minimum CIPS level 5 qualification (or be working towards), with significant experience of procurement, commissioning or contract management, within a local authority, health and social care, or public sector environment. Due to the nature of this position, it is critical that you have knowledge of relevant legislation, including Care Act market shaping responsibilities as well as demonstrated working knowledge and understanding of Procurement Regulation including PCR 2015, Procurement Act 2023 and the Provider Selection Regime. You must have a proven ability to manage complex workloads, plan ahead and be able to prioritise effectively and support others to do the same. You will have the ability to think strategically, and promote a culture of compliance and continuous improvement. It is essential that you are a confident communicator, as you will be providing expert advice and influencing at senior levels. We require you to have experience of developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning strategies or business plans, including needs assessment and market analysis preferably related to social care, health, public health and housing services and of contract management and performance appraisal. You must have an understanding of children’s and adult social care, housing, health and public health and their underpinning values, standards and legislative framework. Ideally, you will have an ability to balance technical detail with practical, people-focused advice. What You Need To KnowThis role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and working from home. Interviews anticipated week commencing 12th January 2026.How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is DifferentWe value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work. We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation. As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities. Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of. We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life. We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential. We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.We’re making a difference, be part of it To view the full job description, please click this link: Commissioning Manager