Procurement Manager

**Role: Procurement Manager**

**Location: Shrewsbury**

**Type: Temporary - Please note that there is a Temp to Perm Option available**

**Duration: 3 - 6 Months**

**Hourly rate: Temp £220 - £325 per day - Perm £ 41,000 - £46,000**

Sellick Partnership are representing a well-known public sector organisation in Shrewsbury. They are looking for a dynamic Procurement Manager on a temporary basis, who can provide professional procurement advice, and lead the procurement process to deliverbest value and service to the organisations.

Our client is looking for an experience Procurement Manager who can take lead responsibility for the delivery of strategic and operational procurement within different centres. Often the contracts of this can be of a complex nature and will need to ensurevalue and targets are met.

**Key responsibilities for the Procurement Manager are;**
- Deliver aspects of a complex contract work plan, including the achievement of annual savings targets, compliance with all legislation
- Identify areas for future investigation and bring value to the benefit of the organisations
- Provide specialist strategic procurement knowledge
- Take responsibility for the purchase of goods or services by delivering a portfolio of complex and high value contracts and develop new and innovation methods of evaluating tender returns
- Management of complex tenders and contract documentation in line with public contract regulations for a portfolio of contracts
- Negotiate with suppliers and user departments to ensure optimum value for money
- Produce complete accurate and relevant specifications for goods and services
- Offer commercial/contractual advice and guidance to Directorates for all goods service
- Research projects, prepare specifications, invite, evaluate, and activate tenders and quotations, negotiate, and place orders and develop contracts to final sign off
- Lead tender adjudication meetings and suppler meetings
- Hold debrief meetings with both successful and unsuccessful suppliers in line the PCR
- Development and delivery of the annual procurement work plan implementing policy throughout activity
- Maintain work plans and databases to ensure they are kept up to date
- Provide department and senior managers with professional advice on quality, price, products, trends, and expenditure to enable departments to review and achieve CIP targets
- Attend meetings, giving, presentations, providing procurement legal advice and produce papers for the organisation board when necessary
- Development and implementation of departmental policies and procedures
- Train staff on policies and procedures where necessary
- Monitor and audit agreed policies
- Ensure compliance with the organisation's procurement procedure manual and other relevant documentation
- Highlight potential improvements in service and CIP Targets to managers
- Attend directorate review meetings, acting as main lead for any detail and actions following the meetings
- Experience of working within a public sector organisation
- Be a Qualified Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Chain (MCIPS) or equivalent experience/qualifications
- Knowledge of a wide range of statistical/numerical techniques and procedures acquired through qualification to degree
- Project Management experience or equivalent qualification would be desirable
- Experience of negotiating contracts in a large organisation and a track record of achieving significant cost reductions
- Knowledge of the Public Contracts Regulations
- Experience of competitive tenders/quotations
- Understanding of procure to pay and catalogue management systems

The Procurement Manager will need to able to be an excellent communicator, with experience in providing the organisation with a professional who is compassionate, committed, inclusive, creative and a visionary leader. Furthermore, they will be able to demonstratethe ability to analyse complicated requests and determine the urgency of a situation, and they will have the ability to reach timely and effective decisions based on the appropriate information.