Principal Procurement Compliance

3 days ago

Salford, United Kingdom NHS Shared Business Services Full time

If you're in public sector Procurement Compliance or Quality Assurance and are seeking a new, dynamic role, consider exploring the opportunity we have available

As a Principal Procurement Compliance & Quality Assurance Officer you will support with embedding a healthy culture within individuals and across our procurement solutions team that will seek to achieve excellence in quality, assure compliance, drive continuous improvement, and deliver outstanding procurement solutions for our customers to access. Working cross-functionally, you'll enjoy forging relationships, influencing action, and getting to the bottom of customer needs to deliver procurement at its finest.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

This role predominantly home based, with travel to one of our offices based in either Salford, Leeds, or London once a month.

What you'll be doing:

  • Conduct formal peer reviews of tender documentation and project outcomes.
  • Provide mentorship on appropriate governance to Procurement Solutions colleagues.
  • Develop policies and tools to resolve issues and improve processes.
  • Work collaboratively within the Procurement Compliance and Quality Assurance team.
  • Integrate seamlessly with category project teams.
  • Stay updated on current topics, trends, and case law in public procurement. Procurement Project Support.

What you’ll bring:

  • UK Public sector procurement knowledge and compliantly working with the UK Public Contracts Regulations 2015, including relevant policy and guidance.
  • Experience of undertaking quality assurance / compliance reviews on procurement documentation to identify areas for improvement and suggesting how such improvements may be achieved.
  • Experience, understanding and interpretation of the legal aspects of procurement and supply.
  • Ability to challenge in a positive but robust manner to drive an improvement in quality standards and drive continuous improvement.
  • CIPS level 4 qualification.
  • Project and Programme Management in a dynamic environment.

It would be great if you had:

  • Experience of delivering high value / strategic projects through all stages of the procurement lifecycle.
  • Experience of implementing procurement / sourcing strategies at a regional or national level.
  • Experience of digital procurement tools and processes.
  • Knowledge of category management principles.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Salford

Security Clearance Level: DBS

Internal Recruiter: Amy

Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

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