Temporary Senior Category Officer

3 weeks ago

Watford, United Kingdom Triumph Consultants Ltd Full time

**What's involved with this role**:
**Temporary Senior Category Officer**
**Reference no**:AFC 5222093 Pay Rate: £19.01
**per hour** PAYE
**Basic DBS required for this role**
**A Category Officer is needed to provide procurement related activities within a wide range of spend categories across the organisation to maximise efficiencies from our systems to enable resources to be redirected to the children, young people, and families who we support.** Key responsibilities:

- Assist with all stages of the tender process; from compiling and maintaining documentation for procurement processes through advertisement, to award of contract and ongoing contract management.
- Provide account management, including administration to capture key performance indicators to monitor supplier performance.
- Review and maintain the corporate systems to produce scheduled and ad-hoc compliance management information for the Head of Procurement and other managers and budget holders, showing progress and performance against compliance and spend.
- Retain the central register of main contracts as well as other appropriate databases for key suppliers and main contractors, allowing monitoring over all category performance.
- Develop and maintain relationships and to also attend meetings with stakeholders, including meetings management i.e., room/venue organisation, minuting and agendas etc. all related activities.
- Ensuring that Remedy force requests assigned to you are actioned in a timely manner and all Procurement related calls are answered within the agreed SLA.
- Provide written, verbal and e-correspondence, ensuring prompt, courteous and appropriate responses.
- Management of suppliers that have been assigned in accordance with Supplier Management Procedures to ensure that all risks and service levels are monitored.
- Maintain and support the management information systems to extract, track and present data, ensuring quality, accurate and improved data inputted on the data management systems are correct.
- Increase Corporate Procurement’s profile, influencing change in procurement practice across the organisation and representing Corporate Procurement at cross functional meetings.
- Manage and maintain responsibility for assigned tender projects and ad hoc small-scale sourcing request from business users.
- Identifying cost savings, tendering, and managing complete supplier and product / service life cycles.

**“Role Requirements” - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria**: Qualifications:

- Member of or working towards a Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply qualification (CIPS).
- Educated to A-Level standard.

**Experience**:

- Experience across procurement and/or supply chain management within a complex organisation.
- Experience dealing with suppliers across a range of goods and services.
- Experience managing simultaneous projects and adhering to agreed operating and reporting timeframes.
- Working cross functionally, demonstrating collaborative and engagement skills and experience.

Skills/Technical skills:

- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Proven ability to grasp new procedures quickly.
- High professional standards and interpersonal behaviour.
- Enjoys a challenge and has a drive to take on responsibility.
- Build and maintain supplier relationships.
- Effective team player and capable of working without regular supervision.

**_To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF._**
**_If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity._**

**Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items**:

- **Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.**
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.

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