Procurement Specialist
4 weeks ago
VANRATH is assisting a large Public Sector Organisation in recruiting a Category Manager to join their team. This role is based in various locations, including Belfast, Ballymena, Omagh, and Armagh, with hybrid working available. The salary for this position is £40,221 - £43,421.
The Category Manager will work closely with the Senior Category Manager and the Head of Procurement to ensure the successful implementation and delivery of a compliant, consistent, and professional procurement service. This involves developing and implementing category management strategies to achieve the aims and objectives, delivering value for money and supply chain improvement, and embedding efficient and effective procurement processes that ensure procurement compliance across the public body.
The key responsibilities of this role include:
- Management of a Procurement Category to deliver effective category management strategies based upon business needs and emerging trends.
- Management of contract reviews to ensure contract performance is managed in line with KPIs and customer requirements.
- Development of an effective category management team to ensure competent and sustainable procurement resources are available to meet the needs.
- Management of strategic supplier relationship management to identify performance improvements.
- Development of contract management and supplier relationship management strategies as integral aspects of procurement activity.
- Proactive engagement in pre-market engagement and regular market sounding to establish feasibility, capacity, capability, and encourage innovation.
- Building working relationships with procurement professionals from other CoPEs and continually benchmarking and regularly examining best practice to ensure they are leading in category level innovative procurement.
- Application of appropriate risk management methodologies and provision of support for reporting staff in high value/high risk contracts.
- Development of an understanding of the category expenditure, policy, regulatory, legislative, or supply and demand issues.
- Ensuring all procurement activity within the category is conducted in line with QMS and complies with the PCR (2015), NIPPP, and relevant PGNs.
- Providing accurate, professional, and expert advice and guidance across all procurement-related matters.
- Management of the category team to ensure that all tenders and contracts are awarded on time and are effectively managed to deliver maximum benefit.
- Planning, leading, and managing the workload within the sub-category specific procurement pipeline, linking into the wider category and procurement pipelines, and achievement of deadlines for contract implementation.
The ideal candidate for this role will have a Bachelor's Degree (UK Qualification and Credit Framework Level 6) or an equivalent or higher qualification and two years' experience working in Procurement within a Public Sector setting, or five years' experience working in Procurement in a Public Sector setting and two years' experience in the management or supervision of staff. They will also have three years' experience of managing the full procurement and contract management lifecycle.
For further information on this job or any other Business Support job in Belfast or Northern Ireland, please contact Leanne Garrett for a confidential chat today.
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