Procurement Business Partner

2 weeks ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Historic England Full time

Summary

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England are seeking a Procurement Business Partner to join our team.

Using a business partnering approach, provide contract management and procurement support and advice to our buyers.

Provide support to the Procurement Senior Manager in ensuring that procurement activity complies with applicable legislation; Cabinet Office, DCMS and HE policy; and best practice in order to deliver commercial and social value for the heritage sector.

What you will be doing

Business Partnering

Work with buyers to develop a clear pipeline for procurements across the organisation and to embed understanding of procurement processes and policies within the organisation, through planned training programmes.

Provide advice, coaching and support to buyers on individual procurements.

Contract Management

Undertake contract management for centralised contracts and frameworks to ensure service is delivered.

Undertake analysis of spend and contract data to identify opportunities for achieving better value for public money across the organisation.

Administration

Manage and assist with the administration of the electronic tendering portal

Oversee the advertising and reporting of contractual opportunities and awards to ensure full compliance with the government transparency agenda.

Ensure the procurement contract database remains accurate and complete.

Act as first point of escalation for suppliers, providing assistance with our electronic tendering portal, escalating where necessary.

Supervise the Deputy Procurement Business Partner, training and developing colleagues and working closely with HR on all people matters. Ensure organisational behaviours and values are upheld and promoted and ensure our legal obligations and the expectations set out in our policies are met.

Who we are looking for

1. Problem Solving - Excellent problem solving experience

2. Communication - Able to explain complex processes to users

3. Relationship management and Partnership working - Partnership experience and team building/rapport skills

4. Technological literacy
- Specifically with finance and procurement systems and Excel

5. Results Seeking - Work with little supervision and be self-motivated, understanding when to ask for advice and assistance.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 26% contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

Provisional virtual interview dates: week commencing

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Please click the following link for the full Job Description

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £32,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sabbatical
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime

Work Location: In person

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