Organisation: The National Trust for Scotland
Location: Edinburgh
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
As a manager in the Procurement Team, you will be responsible for providing Procurement support to regional and directorate teams on an ongoing basis, including:
1. Providing advice and guidance on sustainable procurement, procurement policy, and processes as required.
2. Delivering local coaching on processes to boost compliance.
Implement strategic procurement across the Trust, including:
1. Developing category management plans.
2. Undertaking strategic sourcing.
3. Working collaboratively on tender processes and subsequent contract management of key suppliers to ensure that the Trust achieves best value, compliance with relevant legislation, and minimising risk.
Develop strong collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders to:
1. Enable local information gathering on upcoming projects to facilitate early engagement and better workload planning.
2. Identify savings opportunities and other opportunities for efficiency and business improvement.
Develop strong collaborative working relationships with key suppliers to ensure:
1. Business-critical contracts are delivered as expected.
2. Ongoing improvements in value and sustainability over the period of the contract.
Support the Head of Procurement with various Trust-wide projects and activities, including:
1. Re-development and implementation of the Sustainable Procurement Policy and procurement procedures.
2. Supplier rationalisation.
3. Achieving savings targets and ultimately reducing the Trust’s Scope 3 carbon emissions.
Undertake a portfolio of tenders over £50k and ongoing contract management of strategic suppliers as agreed with the Head of Procurement and aligned with the Trust’s ethical and sustainability policies.
Support the implementation of sustainable procurement initiatives across the Trust to reduce the Trust’s Scope 3 carbon emissions.
Identify, lead, and deliver process improvement initiatives working with colleagues in other teams as required, introducing better controls, improved reporting, and process automation where possible.
Create and develop a continuous improvement culture looking for opportunities to:
1. Reduce the supply base and consolidate spend to achieve savings.
2. Build closer relationships with key suppliers and secure improved services for stakeholders.
3. Increase automation in the purchase to pay process, use of catalogues, etc.
Accurate recording of savings and other KPI data to support reporting to ExCo.
Any other duties commensurate with the role.
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