Principal Procurement Business Partner

**About You**:
**Are you looking for an opportunity to lead a team that supports frontline operational teams delivering infrastructure programmes?**

**Do you want to enable procurement from end to end and deliver a variety of activities with the right commercial outcomes?**

**Do you have a positive attitude?**

**If so, read on...**

You will bring a track record of developing infrastructure procurement strategies and implementation through delivery of procurement procedures.

Using your skills and knowledge, you’ll collaborate with colleagues across the organisation and external partners to enable delivery.

As a great communicator who is able to listen, interpret the needs of the business whilst being able to influence to achieve the right commercial outcomes.

Importantly you will be able to lead a small procurement team and help the department to continuously improve.

**About The Role**:
This is an exciting new opportunity to join our expanding Procurement Department as we continue to support the growth within the organisation to improve the services we deliver for our customers.

Our vision is to be ‘a problem solving, easy to work with business partner that adds value and benefits through a considered risk approach to deliver the needs of the business.’

Do you want to use your expertise to provide procurement and commercial advice to colleagues across the organisation? If so, this is a great opportunity to join us to make a difference by supporting the team’s commercial growth.

**To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.**

**Role location**: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)

**Schedule**:
Application closing date: 6th October 2024

Sifting date: 7th October 2024

Interviews: 14th October 2024

(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)

**Security**:
**About The Coal Authority**:
**Our benefits**:
- A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.-
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.- Unlock exclusive employee discounts- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.

**Working with us**:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.

With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.

**Who we are**:
Here at the Coal Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.

We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.

We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.

We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**:
As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.