Procurement Manager

4 days ago


Kidlington, United Kingdom Reed Talent Solutions Full time

My client a police force has two excellent Fixed term contract opportunities for Procurement Managers - One role is for 18 months in their ICT category and the other is for 2 years in the Professional Services category. The salary for both roles is payingup to £45,000 per annum, plus 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), flexible working and option to join local government pension scheme. Hybrid working - Mostly home working with the occasional need to attend a force location for ad hoc meetings

The overall purpose of the role is to:

- Act as the primary Category lead reporting to relevant Business Partner. Interface and be the
focal point with the stakeholder project teams for all procurements defined within your Portfolio.
- Undertake and manage the effective delivery of the Procurement Strategy, policies & procedures and savings programme on an assigned Category Group/Portfolio basis in order to provide a professional procurement service to stakeholders.
- Initiate and develop business cases, reports and committee items as required and present to the appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
- Undertake and deliver the Savings Programme assigned to your Category Group / Portfolio and team and deliver cashable savings opportunities for your assigned Category. Undertake the implementation of proactive cost reduction and supplier improvement programmeswithin your Category/Portfolio, as defined by the Head of Procurement in order to deliver best value for the Force.
- Undertake the creation and marketing of Category plans and identify where corrective action is needed to ensure procurement issues are managed effectively throughout the procurement cycle.
- Identify, develop and provide input into business cases, reports, committee items and present to the appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage and / or coordinate project teams to deliver procurements, providing strategic sourcing advice and support to stakeholders on the management of in scope contracts and supplier relationships. Undertake the identification and implementation of innovativesourcing approaches to deliver projects to enhance levels of service and minimise costs, ensuring compliance with the overall Procurement strategy and seek to safeguard contractual and commercial risk.
- Accountable for the management of spend within their defined categories of responsibility
(Currently circa £28m building & construction, £16m Operations, £11m Professional Services, £31m IT) in annual non-pay expenditure.

The knowledge or skills required in the role are as follows:

- Proven track record of operating in a similar EU procurement regulated environment is
required.
- Previous experience in delivering procurement activities for public and / or private sector
organisations. Experience and understanding of EU Procurement Regulations.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills - both verbal and written.
- Confident in the use of office IT systems and programs particularly Excel, Word &
PowerPoint.
- Ability to produce high quality written reports.
- Either hold or be willing to study to achieve Chartered MCIPS status.



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