Procurement Officer

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

- 285350**Salary**:

- £31,931 - £34,709**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- UKRI - Procurement and Commercial**Type of role**:

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

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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**Job summary**:
Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape cutting edge scientific research that can make a difference to all our lives? The Science & Technology Facilities Council, part of UK Research & Innovation, has a mission to deliver world-leading national and international research and innovation capabilities and, through those, discover the secrets of the universe. Major research and innovation campuses at Harwell, Daresbury and research facilities across the UK support fundamental research in Particle Physics, Technology, space science and many other areas.

UKRI has an excellent and exciting opportunity for a procurement professional to join the team supporting STFC in all its procurement activities

As a Procurement Officer, you will be joining an established, supportive team and will be involved in a wide variety of projects ranging from Research & Development, Scientific Facilities, Construction and a variety of Scientific Disciplines. You will have the opportunity to shape commercial strategy, develop your own skills & experience, and contribute to projects that may have wide-ranging positive impacts for all.

**Job description**:
**Who are we looking for?**

We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic individual who enjoys bringing their skills and experience to all procurement projects they undertake. This role will manage a highly varied mix of stakeholders, and confidence & professional credibility are vital to ensure your presence and involvement is positively felt throughout the procurement lifecycle.

You will:

- Have a good general education and qualifications and it is desirable to be MCIPS qualified/part qualified or to have a business qualification;
- Be customer focused, able to deal with key stakeholder questions and queries
- Have good interpersonal and communication skills
- Have good commercial awareness and be able to identify procurement risks and issues
- Have good experience in a commercial or procurement environment, and it is desirable to have significant procurement experience in a technical organisation;
- Have an understanding of the context and meaning of terms and conditions;
- Be able to perform a wide range of administration duties

**Person specification**:
**The Role**

RAL Procurement Officers, working with and reporting to RAL Procurement Managers, support research staff on all of their complex procurement projects. Procurement Officers play a key part in ensuring that procurements are run in the correct manner and that our organisation obtains maximum benefit.

This Procurement Officer role will add to the wider, decentralised UKRI team. The role will be responsible to:

- Provide local expertise and support to end-users to undertake a range of procurement tasks (varying in both value and complexity) including sourcing and contracting;
- Provision of expert advice on all aspects of regulations and controls and representing UKRI’s risk appetite in procurement decisions;
- To keep local end-users up to date with UKRI procurement policy and best practice in public procurement;
- Act as initial contact and escalation route to the local Procurement Manager or Commercial Business Partner;
- Support the development of local procurement and contract management skill

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:
1st interview in presentation.

Interviews will either take place in person or remotely via our video conferencing facility, Zoom.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

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