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Title: Interim Strategic Procurement Officer (Procurement)
Job Ref: Gloucestershire 5255023
Pay Rate: £224.97 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: GLOUCESTER
They will be required on site at least 2 x days per week. Contract duration; initially 3 months with an option to extend further.
Working as part of the Council’s Strategic Procurement Service you will support or lead tender activity or act in a support role to provide specialist support or analytical services to the team or its customers. This is one of a number of posts in the Strategic Procurement Service that work flexibly to support the commercial needs of the Council. Success will depend on developing critical relationships at all levels, particularly with commissioners, outcome managers, project manager and other support services. You will be expected to demonstrate a good level of procurement knowledge and expertise perhaps in a specialist subject area and may be required to undertake discreet procurement projects.
Provide commissioners or other clients with pragmatic and informed advice so that customer outcomes and value for money requirements met or exceeded.
Key Responsibilities:
Use specialist knowledge or expertise to achieve superior outcomes.
Undertake market and supplier research to inform the development of commissioning and commercial thinking.
Undertake or lead discreet procurement projects and attend project/review board meetings as required.
Assess Social Value and work to maximise it through your work.
Ensure effective communication and engagement with stakeholders and partners (including external suppliers).
Assess and manage the risk associated with each activity.
Keep up-to-date with relevant policy and legislative changes.
Ensure compliance with all legal and Council requirements and policies.
Work to lead or support specific tendering activity.
Prepare a procurement strategy that describes your procurement findings and recommended approach.
Qualifications:
Relevant degree/ qualification
Proficient in Math, finance data, and numerical data.
Knowledge:
Extensive knowledge and understanding of procurement methods and legislation including best practice, achievement of Value for Money and benefits delivery.
Knowledge or experience of administering e-procurement, tenders, invoices.
Knowledge and understanding of Market Analysis.
Use specialist knowledge or expertise to achieve superior outcomes.
An understanding of the issues facing local authorities and detailed current knowledge of the UK and EU statutory and regulatory frameworks relating to Social Housing Services.
Experience:
Experience of providing high quality reports, performance updates and analysis to management teams.
Skills & Abilities:
Strong Influencing and negotiation skills to enable effective operation and relationship building at all levels.
Ability to manage and oversee diverse projects of differing complexities, meeting deadlines as required.
Ability to ensure Value for Money (VFM) and that the organisation will maximise the impact from its resources on Stock Investment and Asset Management.
Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and external partners.
Proficient in IT, the use of MS Office, and willingness to learn applications relevant to the team.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: Gloucestershire 5255023
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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