Procurement Business Partner

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 284095**Salary**:

- £40,178**Job grade**:

- Other- R&0 8**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Corporate Services**Type of role**:

- Procurement and Contracts Management**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Brighton, South East England, BN1 4DWAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About us**

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

**Job description**:
**Role**

We’re looking for someone to deliver best practice commercial services and solutions primarily to our DDaT Directorate. They will be required to lead on procurements and deliver robust, value for money contracts.

**Responsibilities**

You will:

- Lead on DDaT procurements and deliver robust, value for money contracts
- Develop effective working relationships and communicate clearly / confidently to all stakeholders, both orally and in writing; to influence thinking and to indirectly manage the actions of others
- Work with a high level of autonomy, proactively, with mínimal guidance or oversight required and freedom of thought in undertaking tasks
- Make actions count by identifying, prioritising, and planning effectively
- Scope, prioritise and plan all procurement activities required to meet business outcomes - identifying outputs, dependencies, resource estimates, stakeholders, risks, and timescales

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Professional Membership/Experience: MCIPS or equivalent with extensive business awareness gained from significant experience of related work from either private or public sector
- Procurement Legislation: In-depth breadth of specialised knowledge of Public Procurement directives, principles, and UK specific legislation
- Personal skills:

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence teams to follow best practice and governance standards and to inform and influence Board/Executive/Senior Leadership Team decisions
- Acting with integrity, having a positive attitude with the ability to take ownership and responsibility for the completion of tasks and the ability to take and demonstrate initiative
- Ability to adapt and work within TPR’s governance framework but with the professional confidence to use own judgement and pragmatic thinking to recommend policy and and procedures efficiencies within the procurement lifecycle
- Desire to disseminate knowledge and experience across the wider commercial team

Procurement Strategies: extensive knowledge, experience and understanding of public sector frameworks with a focus on digital and technology, plus being aware of new avenues of supply

**Person Specification**
- Proactive, adaptable and flexible
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative
- Communication skills at all levels
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Personable and a team player

**Benefits**:
**Salary and benefits**

As well as a salary between £40,178 and £52,289 we offer:

- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:
How to apply
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period

We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gen