Procurement Officer and Senior Procurement Officer

**Job details**:
Job reference

REQ5701

Date posted

28/04/2025

Application closing date

26/05/2025

Location

Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices

Salary

£31,067 - £44,711 Per Year

Package

Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): up to £60,804.45

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Legal

Attachments

Job Specification Procurement Officer R8004.docx Job Specification Senior procurement officer R8002.docx

**Procurement Officer and Senior Procurement Officer**:
Job description

Full Time / 37 hours per week / Permanent

**What you’ll be doing**

Joining our procurement team at Leicester City Council, you will join a fast-paced highly dynamic Mayoral Authority, procuring a whole host of critical contracts for goods works and services across a range of sectors.

With roles available across our team due to career progressions you’ll join as a Procurement Officer or Senior Procurement Officer.

Day to day, within these roles you’ll:

- Undertake and be involved in managing, a variety of procurement projects including liaising with service departments (internal clients).
Consider procurement strategies/approaches and planning the procurement process.
- Prepare relevant procurement documentation (including evaluation schemes), advertise the contract, market engagement, manage evaluation of submissions, conduct tender clarifications.
- Draft correspondence, prepare evaluation reports, manage communications with bidders.
- Liaise with legal services to agree contract documentation.

As a senior team member you’ll also:

- Undertake procurement activity more independently including higher value/higher complexity.
- Deputise for the Procurement Manager as and when required.
Provides expert advice on procurement strategies/approaches and planning the procurement process.
- Manages negotiations with preferred suppliers, working with users and technical and legal specialists to draft contracts and technical schedules developing acceptance procedures and criteria.

**What you’ll need**

Public Sector procurement experience is preferred but equivalent Private Sector experience and transferable skills are accepted. You’ll have knowledge and experience relevant to a specific category specialism, e.g., Goods, Works and Services, including Procurement Act 2023 training (TPP) or commitment to complete this within 4 weeks of starting.

Using your experience of procurement, tendering and contract management processes, as well as basic knowledge of contract law. You’ll be highly organised, with the ability to prioritise time and objectives effectively. With strong analytical skills with ability to review information presented within tender responses and evaluations to identify the best value.

In addition, you’ll have excellent communication skills, ability to present statistical or technical reports and liaise with both internal and external stakeholders. Including, proficient IT skills, ability to use and manage our IT tendering systems for advertising contracts.

**About the role**

You’ll have flexibility in hybrid working being both office based, at City Hall or working remotely from home to suit your needs and those of your clients. The team currently attends City Hall for a minimum of 1 day a week, where you will join them.

**What we can offer you**

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working.
In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

**Join us**

**Interview/Assessments will take place on the 10th and 11th of June 2025 in City Hall, Leicester.