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Head of Procurement

4 months ago

Derby, United Kingdom Derby City Council Full time

Application closing date

08/05/2024

Working Pattern

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Salary

Grade P £68,011 - £75,467 a year

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Job description

**Role: Head of Procurement**
**Salary: Grade P £68,011 - £75,467 a year**
**Location: Council House, Corporation Street, Derby DE1 2FS with the opportunity for hybrid working**

**Hours: 37 hours a week**
**Closing Date: 8 May 2024**
**Contract Type: Permanent**

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced procurement specialist, to lead Derby City Council’s Procurement Service.

As Head of Procurement, you will be the Council’s lead procurement professional, providing strategic procurement advice across the organisation. The Head of Procurement manages the Procurement Service and works closely with services across the Council to deliver the Council’s spending and commissioning objectives.

The public procurement landscape is changing, so you will need excellent change management and delivery skills as you will be responsible for leading the Council’s implementation of the Procurement Act 2023.

**Who We Are**

Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.

**What We Offer**

You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:

- Flexible work/life balance scheme
- Hybrid working
- Modern office environment
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Team Derby Rewards - retail and leisure discounts
- Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
- Employee Assistance Programmes & Support
- Access to our Equality Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network
- Support for colleagues who are carers

**The Opportunity**

In the role of Head of Procurement, here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:
Being the Council’s lead procurement professional, providing strategic procurement advice to colleagues across the Council.
Delivering the Council’s Procurement Strategy and working with colleagues across the Council to achieve the Council’s procurement and commissioning objectives.

Ensuring compliance with the Council’s Contract Procedure Rules and leading the implementation of new processes and procedures to ensure compliance with the Procurement Act 2023.
Leading the Council’s Procurement Service, managing a team of procurement professionals over a range of grades.
Forming a key part of the Directore Leadership Team and being a member of the Council’s Extended Leadership Team.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have

Be CIPS Qualified and have a number of years experience providing strategic procurement advice to a wide range of purchasing departments. You will be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of category management skills and have sector expertise and market knowledge. You will understand the need to provide procurement advice that delivers savings and efficiencies and be able to demonstrate how different procurement approaches can be applied to deliver the best value for money for the Council. Ideally you will have experience of working within the public sector and an understanding as to how a political organisations, like the Council, operates, although this is not essential.

You will have a track record of leading and managing a procurement team or service as a team leader and be able to demonstrate a clear and compassionate approach to management.

A key requirement of this role, will be the implementation of the Procurement Act across the Council and therefore you should be able to demonstrate experience of implementing organisation-wide changes in policy and procedure and a clear understanding of the steps necessary to achieve successful organisational change.

**Next Steps**

Interviews will be held in May

**Important Information**

Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

**Equality, Diversity & Inclusion**

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.