Job description
Company Summary/background:
eXceeding is a procurement consultancy founded in 2011 and based in rural Northamptonshire. We provide procurement solutions across the private and public sector. Due to new programmes in the private sector and our expansion across Local Authorities, Housing Associations, Higher Education and the NHS, we are adding to the consulting team to support key projects.
The Role
The role of the Procurement Consultant is to lead delivery of tactical procurement projects, typically sourcing and tendering, ensuring procurement operations run smoothly and client expectations and objectives are met. Also, where appropriate, supporting on the development and implementation of procurement strategy.
Service Excellence is at the heart of everything we do, so you must have a proactive approach, a positive 'can-do' attitude, an eye for the details, and an appetite to delight clients by delivering successful outcomes.
You will ideally have experience gained within both a private and public sector procurement environment so that you are able to quickly adapt and adopt highly regulated or more flexible, commercial processes. It would be of benefit to hold MCIPS qualification.
Key Responsibilities:
* Build strong working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
* Oversee a portfolio of procurement projects governed by the relevant processes, and add procurement inputs aligned to customer requirements, including but not limited to:
* Clarify and capture strategic/client objectives
* Market engagement
* Routes to market
* Specification review and refinement
* Preparation of RFI/RFP/RFQ and SQ/ITT documentation
* Development of evaluation methodologies and related questions
* Scoring (and moderation process where appropriate - public sector)
* SoW/Contract review
* Provide general advice around procurement and contracting.
* Quality assure tender processes (compliance, scoping, briefing, tendering, selection, evaluation, contract negotiation and award) to align with eXceeding's Service Excellence objectives.
* Develop or refine procurement and workflow documentation where required.
* Work with the commercial team to help develop solutions for new and existing customers.
* Spot opportunities to provide proactive advisory to clients on ways that they could improve their procurement processes and functions and better meet the needs of organisational stakeholders.
Essential Skills & Experience:
* Category experience in estates, construction, or hard and soft facilities management.
* Experience working in a private sector procurement role with demonstrable experience of owning/managing various tendering exercises, and/or in public sector procurement role with evidence of leading multiple above threshold PCR2015 tender procedures and framework call offs.
* Experience of gathering requirements from stakeholders and helping refine specifications.
* Experience of supplier sourcing and market engagement activities.
* Ability to compile RFx/ITT document sets.
* Has been part of evaluation panel and participated in scoring and/or moderation process for responses.
* Can review contracts and statements of work and understand when to involve commercial and/or legal.
* Ability to manage a number of procurements simultaneously and maintain project delivery timescales.
* Advanced IT literacy skills (especially MS Office Suite) and an experienced user of eSourcing platforms.
* Experience of working with stakeholders to incorporate themes such as social value and sustainability into procurements.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
* Category experience in Information Technology.
* Understanding of the various routes to market available to UK public sector, and the factors in deciding the most appropriate option.
* Holder of CIPS accreditation.
* Project management qualifications (Prince2, PMP, or equivalent).
* Previous involvement in developing or managing internal frameworks.
* Contract management experience.
* Construction contracts experience (JCT, NEC).
* Previous experience working for a procurement professional services firm.
Why Join eXceeding?
This is an opportunity to join a small but growing organisation where you will quickly build upon your procurement knowledge and capabilities and gain exposure to new categories and sectors. We deal with all sizes of organisation across the public and private sectors, offering strategic as well as tactical procurement consultancy, and covering all spend categories. It’s typical to find areas you are naturally drawn to, and over time you may become something of a subject matter expert. As the organisation continues to grow, there will be opportunities to develop your role and take on new areas of responsibility.
eXceeding operate a hybrid working style. Ideally you would be able to work from our office 2x days per week, however this will depend on your home location. Some of our consultants work mostly from home due to their distance from the office.
We can also consider applications from those who wish to work a four day week (Monday to Thursday inclusive).
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* Casual dress
* On-site parking
* Work from home
Schedule:
* Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Raunds NN9 6NS
Reference ID: 1028RBL/LH
Experience:
* Microsoft Office: 1 year (required)
* Procurement: 10 years (required)
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