Senior Procurement Manager

**Role: Senior Procurement Manager**

**Location: Shrewsbury**

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

**Duration: 3 - 6 Months**

**Hourly rate: Temp £255 - £375 per day - Perm £ 48,000 - £54,000**

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

Our client is looking for an experience Senior Procurement Manager who can take lead responsibility for the delivery of strategic and operational procurement. Often the contracts of this can be of a complex nature and will need to ensure value and targetsare met.

**Key responsibilities for the Senior 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
- Produce Official Journal of the EU advertisements, complex tender and contract documentations for an agreed 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
- Lead tender adjudication meetings and supplier meetings (pre and post tender) acting as a chairperson or secretary
- 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
- Identify new areas for contracting and work with departments to successfully implement changes
- Increase purchase order expenditure managed by contracts
- 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 across the organisation
- Train staff on policies and procedures where necessary
- Monitor and audit agreed policies including SFI's, OJEU etc
- 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
- Develop a detailed work plan in consultation with centres
- Deliver procurement objectives for the organisations
- Research projects, prepare specifications, invite, evaluate and activate tenders and quotations, negotiate, and place order and develop contracts to final sign off
- 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 techniques and procedures acquired through qualification to degree
- Expert knowledge of EEU procurement, contract manager etc
- Project Management experience or equivalent qualification would be desirable
- Experience of proactive category/supplier management would be desirable.
- Experience of leading training and development sessions is 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 in procurement with the last 5 years at management level, being able to provide specialist procurement knowledge.

The Senior 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 ableto demonstrate the 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.