Senior Procurement Advisor

4 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

**Senior Procurement Advisor**

**Your new role**

Here at National Highways, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Procurement Advisor to join our Commercial and Procurement Directorate, based in either Birmingham or Leeds. We have a flexible hybrid working approach, meaning the role will be a combination of office/site attendance/agile home working.

As Senior Procurement Advisor, you will be responsible for procurement support and advice on all procurement activities, supporting senior members of the team and developing your own skills and capabilities. You will work independently or lead team in ensuring that procurement processes, workflow and delivery meets targets and quality standards, procurement documentation properly captures organisational requirements.

**What you’ll be leading on**
- Supporting the production of the procurement strategy for projects, developing effective supply solutions and market plans to meet organisational need and enable projects and programmes to maintain a consistent market-facing approach.
- Implementation of the approved strategy, assisting with overall management, directly leading work programmes (e.g, the production of tender documentation) and managing relationships with external stakeholders and suppliers accordingly to drive an efficient procurement process that effectively manages risk and secures value for money
- Aiding governance processes, demonstrating compliance with the procurement strategy and prevailing legislation, policy, guidance.
- Facilitate tender evaluation processes, ensuring that consensus is reached on evaluation outcomes and helping the production of tender evaluation reports.
- Support the award of contracts and management of contract variations on behalf of National Highways.
- Up to date knowledge of changes in legislation, industry best practice and market conditions, to identify and take forward and deliver innovation and best practice in areas of responsibility through identifying options and opportunities to drive more effective and/or efficient outcomes

**To be successful you’ll need**
- Business Knowledge and Experience.
- Good understanding of the procurement lifecycle and the legislation, policy, guidance and governance controlling the procurement environment.
- Experience in the development of procurement strategies, with experience of participating in market analysis and engagement and knowledge of procurement best practice.
- Demonstrable experience in leading the management of procurement processes, including the production of tender documentation, tender evaluation and/or supporting governance.
- Working towards CIPS qualifications or equivalent.

**A bit about us**

There’s never been a better time to join our Commercial and Procurement team

National Highways deliver a multi-billion pound annual operations and investment programme that includes some of the largest and/or most complex procurements in the UK.

We’re a growing, vibrant team helping to drive the most ambitious roads investment programme our country has ever seen. You’ll be involved in the design of our modern, progressive contracts and partnerships, negotiating best commercial terms, galvanizing innovation and producing smart cost estimates and plans. Building in every opportunity to ensure that our customers and road workers get home safe and well every day while travelling or working on our road network.

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