Procurement Category Manager

2 months ago


Bath, United Kingdom University of Bath Full time

Procurement Category Manager

Department
Finance & Procurement

Salary
Starting from £37,099, rising to £44,263

Closing date
Sunday 29 September 2024

An opportunity has become available for a Procurement Category Manager to join our team

As a qualified and experienced procurement professional, you will make use of your experience of working within the public sector and enjoy meeting the needs of internal customers and delivering quantifiable benefits back to the organisation.

You will be responsible for procuring a wide range of equipment and services to support our research and teaching activities predominantly across the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering, often working closely with internal stakeholders to ensure that external funding deadlines are successfully met. Although not essential, you will have some experience of procuring from the scientific and engineering markets.

Further information

The role is offered on a full-time basis (36.5 hours per week) for a fixed-term period until May 2025 and offers you the flexibility to operate hybrid working arrangements. An office base is available within a city centre location near the Bath Spa train station or you can also work remotely with the flexibility to determine your optimum balance of work locations across the week.

What we can offer you

- a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
- generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
- an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities

Find out more about our benefits on our website.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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