Senior Category Advisor

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Highways England Full time

**Your new role**

Senior Category Advisor
- Do you want to be involved in supporting cutting edge digital services & technology procurement?
- What about a career in one of only 17 organisations globally to be awarded CIPS Platinum Award for Procurement Excellence?
- Do you want to work in an engaging and collaborative environment?
- Do you have a desire to be recognised for adding real value to the organisation?

Then National Highways has roles for you. The Commercial & Procurement Digital Services & Technology Team is seeking individuals to join us at this exciting time as we support our Digital Roads programme and our Digital data and technology strategy.

We are adopting a category focussed approach. Extensive category support and training exists and will be available to those who need it.

You will be based at one of our regional offices (Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Guildford). We support a flexible working pattern, which will be agreed with your line manager, and will include home working as well as office visits and travel to meet suppliers, to attend conferences and to attend team meetings across the UK.

Experience of working in digital services and technology procurement and/or in the public sector would be an advantage, but this is not essential to making your mark and being successful in this role. Even more important is your drive, enthusiasm and willingness to engage to deliver value to the business.

If this interests you, then we want to hear from you.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Understand fully the business need and provide specialist advice and guidance for stakeholders on procurement policy and procedures - to ensure that procurement drives innovation and best practice and is compliant with business frameworks and UK legislation/EU directives.
- Assist with the management of the establishment, monitoring and delivery of work programmes to deliver contracts and procurement activities using varied resources, adhering to governance requirements whilst minimising risk and vulnerabilities.
- Ensure that the appropriate tender, contract and finance management systems are maintained and all activity correctly recorded.
- Contribute to encouraging improvements in contractual and procurement knowledge and practice across the Company in line with public sector procurement frameworks - sharing knowledge and skills with others to disseminate best practice.
- Contribute to the management and maintenance of effective supply chain relationships with key suppliers and supply bodies at regional levels.
- Assist with supplier cost savings targets, and initiatives delivered that increase efficiency whilst maintaining performance and risk management.
- Lead the identification, evaluation and selection of suppliers to support business requirements through developing tender documentation, chairing consensus meetings and producing Tender Evaluation Reports.
- Maintain positive supplier relationships, encouraging innovation, creation of “value add” solutions, and a strong customer service ethic.
- Monitor, implement and report on compliance with contractual processes and project performance, elevating issues where appropriate. Contributing to the building of a culture of continuous improvement.
- Assist with the building of excellent collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support delivery of the Highways England imperatives, Safety, Customer Service and implementation of the Category Management approach
- Drive continual improvement in health and safety performance demonstrating a strong understanding of Highways England Five Year Health & Safety Plan and how Procurement Division contributes to this.

**To be successful**
- A track-record in managing major procurement exercises (inviting/selecting tenders, managing contracts)
- Experience in a commercially focussed environment.
- Strong project management skills.
- Should hold or be willing to work towards the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) Diploma (or equivalent).

**Want to know more?**

Or visit **recruitment.highways.gov.uk/ **for a full list of our vacancies

**A bit about us**

Birmingham, Leeds or Bristol or surrounding areas

National Highways is on an exciting journey to digitise all that we do - come join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this.

We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will



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