Procurement Manager

The Procurement Manager works in the Council's Procurement and Commercial Team, having responsibility for a range of procurements valued over £100,000. The post holder will be responsible for delivering compliant procurements which achieve value for money and high quality outcomes.

The Procurement Team work on a hybrid basis, from home or at our purpose-built, state of the art offices in Alconbury Weald. We try to get together at least a couple of times a month for collaborative working and when required (if you'd prefer to work in the office more regularly, you're able to do so). Additional face-to-face time in the office will be provided to support with your induction, training and development. There may also be the occasional requirement to travel around the County and beyond to meet the requirements of our clients.

Although mainly working remotely, the team are in frequent contact with each other and always available to talk to; we have a very friendly, encouraging working environment and new starters have always commented on how welcome and settled they have been made to feel.

Interviews will be held at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, on the 12th & 13th June.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Jon Collyns on , email

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible working
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme.
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme

Main accountabilities for this role are:

• Plan and deliver effective procurement processes that are compliant with the Council's Contract Procedure Rules, the Public Contract Regulations/Procurement Act and any other relevant legislation. This will involve interpretation of law and guidance to recommend relevant courses of action to service areas.
• Acting as subject matter experts, work proactively with service areas to ensure that procurement documentation and processes are fit for purpose. Work with Procurement and Commercial colleagues to develop documentation and processes as required.
• Prepare appropriate and quality procurement documentation using the templates available to ensure that procurement processes are transparent and proportionate.
• Work with colleagues to develop and provide training to service areas on procurement requirements including evaluation processes.
• Develop processes within the e tendering system and use that system (and any other relevant systems) efficiently and effectively in delivering the role.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant supply markets to ensure that procurements are designed in a way which is most likely to achieve high quality outcomes.
• Collaborate effectively as part of the wider Procurement and Commercial Team, taking on other relevant roles as needed to raise the profile of the Procurement and Commercial function at the Council.
• Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Ability to contribute to our commitment of becoming a Net Zero organisation by 2030.

This is a busy role dealing with multiple stakeholders, so you should be able to effectively manage your time and workload to prioritise and deliver to deadlines as agreed with your line manager.

The ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders at various levels is key, as you'll need to build collaborative working relationships, to understand and support the needs of the services this element of the team supports. This role will be supporting colleagues predominantly within the Place & Sustainability and Property Directorates, covering areas such as Compliance, Maintenance, Highways, Transport and Waste, amongst others.

You'll be confident with MS Office and able to learn new IT systems (we provide support and guidance documents), specifically our e-tendering system ProContract.

If you feel you have relevant transferable skills, please do apply as we will always take this into account when shortlisting.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

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