Procurement Manager

2 days ago

Poole, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

Procurement Manager within the Public Sector to start ASAP after interview.
**Your new company**
A leading specialist provider of high-quality teaching, learning, research and scholarship in art, design, architecture, media, and performance. This organisation has rich experience of delivering creative education, research, and knowledge exchange, and theypride themselves on developing the necessary skills and experiences in our students to help them effectively join the world of work, both now and in the future. Our record of progression to employment by graduates is amongst the highest in the UK universitysector.
Their staff - academic, technical, and professional - are recognised as both the creators of specialist knowledge and the curators of learning materials that nourish a holistic student experience. Our facilities, equipment, digital capability, and other resourcesare at the forefront of their disciplines, designed to equip our graduates with the skills needed in the professional arena. This organisation thrives on a powerful sense of belonging - to place, communities, professions, industry, and to each other.
**Your new role**
As Procurement Manager, you will be providing leadership on matters relating to contracts, commercial issues, procurement directives, and delivery of sustainable procurement policies and practiced across the organisation. You will also advise budget holderson the most appropriate procurement route and lead on higher risk procurement exercises and those arising on the receipt of grant funding to perform detailed analysis and manipulation of commodity information or data. Highlighting and prioritising areas forcost reduction or improved efficiencies to support management decision-making.
You will need to take responsibility for ensuring that all relevant procurement information and documentation is maintained, ensuring systems, websites, reports, documents are updated as required and are in a format that staff can understand and use. The ProcurementManager will take delegated responsibility for budgets following established procedures within the organisation as well as lead project teams/working groups, or contribute to cross-organisation project teams/working groups, to support the achievement or projectobjectives.
Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will have two Purchase Order Administrators reporting into yourself. You will be managing and supporting staff effectively through regular reviews of performance, including, for example, regular meetings, and the annualStaff Performance Review process. You will also be responsible for developing staff creatively in accordance with professional need and section objectives e.g., training staff on the Access purchase order system.
**What you'll need to succeed**
- Awareness of key challenges within the Higher Education sector or similar sector in receipt of significant government funding
- Subject related qualification and/or professional membership accreditation of accounting bodies such as CIPS
- Experience of working within a Public Sector organisation as a category manager and leading procurements
- Degree level qualification or equivalent qualification or experience
- Understanding of the key deliverables of the job to develop and promote procurement processes and advise on procurement routes and lead on higher risk procurement exercises
- Excellent MS Office skills - Word, Excel, Outlook and as appropriate for the post e.g., to manipulate large amounts of data using Excel, to deliver sophisticated procurement reports
- Excellent administrative and organisation skills as well as experience of office administration

**What you'll get in return**
- Incremental salary with increases each year
- Pension scheme
- 35 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Development budget for each department
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid working scheme - 2 days from home / 3 days in the office

**What you need to do now**
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