Procurement Specialist

3 weeks ago

Bradford, United Kingdom Bradford 2025 Full time

**BD25 Procurement Specialist**

**Closing Date: 31/08/2023**

**Interview Date: TBC**

Bradford district’s year of culture is set to deliver more than 1,000 new performances and events including 365 artist commissions, a series of major arts festivals and major national and international collaborations. To do this we need a team of dedicated, passionate, and enthusiastic people. We’re at the start of our journey and have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Procurement Specialist, reporting to the Head of Finance to join the team.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Support the Head of Finance to oversee our procurement activity, tracking and reporting of procurement activity to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Deliver and support the delivery of high-quality, best practice procurement, to ensure that we spend our money wisely, achieving value for money and legislative compliance as well as supporting our sustainability aspirations.
- Successfully undertake medium and high value or complex procurement projects, both individually and collaboratively with the team.
- Provide a focal point for guidance to ensure the consistent use and development of our tendering processes and procurement policy and procedures.
- To lead the delivery of procurement programmes and projects through establishing and leading multi-disciplinary teams and developing high quality outputs including business cases, procurement and contract documentation within a robust project management framework.
- To assist and constructively challenge departments to meet their statutory, corporate, and departmental obligations according to national policy/guidance and local policy and priorities, including compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations and Contracts Standing Orders, Financial Regulations, and other relevant UK Legislation relating to contracting and procurement.
- To proactively encourage the development of systems and processes that will drive forward increased efficiency and greater value for money from our procurement activities.
- Provide concise and timely communications to departments to ensure annual procurement plans are developed and priority procurement projects are identified to help enable early supplier engagement.
- Ensure procurement resources are effectively utilised.
- Ensure confidentiality and the protection of commercially sensitive or personally sensitive information in line with our policies and procedures.
- To proactively promote and participate in the transfer of best practice and learning.

**You will have**:

- Significant experience in commissioning, procurement and/ or category management role in an arena of significant range, scale or complexity, including experience at management level.
- As a minimum either a Level 5 qualification on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) or a Bachelor degree, graduate certificate and / or graduate diploma in a relevant discipline OR equivalent, demonstrable experience.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Experience of using financial management systems - experience of Xero would be desirable but not essential.
- Proficiency with Excel/google sheets.
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills.
- Be able to communicate with people at all levels.
- The ability to organise and prioritise.

**Benefits include**:

- Salary £40,000 to £45,000 dependent upon previous experience
- 37 hours per week worked flexibly Monday to Friday, predominantly office based (City Centre location)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
- Death in Service cover of 2 x annual salary
- High street discounts

**We expect everyone in our team to**:

- Develop an understanding of Bradford City of Culture 2025, its values, the benefits it brings to the Bradford District and to funders and sponsors.
- Create a positive working environment, underpinned by our values.
- Act as an ambassador for Bradford City of Culture 2025.
- Drive change in our industry through actions and words that advocate inclusion and equality, creating a culture that recognises and celebrates diversity and sustainability.
- Be accountable for the safety of yourself and others by working safely and in accordance with our Health & Safety and Safeguarding Policies.
- Ensure we are collecting and using data from all activities to inform decisions, demonstrate our impact and fulfil our funding conditions in line with GDPR.
- Undertake relevant training and development as required.
- Be open to the opportunities to mentor, train and develop colleagues and participants in Bradford 2025.
- Carry out any other tasks that will be required on an ad hoc or continuing basis, commensurate with the general level of responsibility of your position.

If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please le

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