Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Leicestershire Highways, Arbor Road, Croft, Leicestershire, LE9 3GE
Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £30,066 per annum
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC - in person
About the Role
As a Technician (Buyer), you will join a busy, motivated, and skilled team delivering a compliant transactional purchasing service, in line with current legislation and the LCC Constitution.
You will support operational teams by receiving and processing requisitions, creating purchase orders in the Oracle Fusion suite, and expediting delivery within agreed timescales. This will include the purchase and hire of materials and plant required for the delivery of a wide range of projects and programmes across the wider highways environment.
You will be the first point of contact for requestors and suppliers alike and will consistently provide a high level of customer service as an ambassador for the team.
You will understand the content and T&C's of the approved contracts and frameworks in use, including how they are created and the supplier selection process to provide a compliant purchasing service and professionally deal with any enquiries relating to contracts, selection process, and timescales.
You will also provide administrative support to other teams by processing procurement opportunities via the electronic portal (Proactis), monitoring supplier performance, and evaluating the service provided to feedback during supplier meetings.
The nature of the work may involve conducting work at different locations than your designated base and attending, from time to time, training courses, conferences, seminars, or other meetings as required by your own training needs and the needs of the service.
About You
To apply for this post, you have:
1. GCSE Grades A-C or equivalent in English and Maths, NVQ Level 3 in a subject relevant to the business area OR BTEC ONC or Diploma in a technical/administrative field or demonstrable evidence of the skills and experience as outlined below.
2. Experience working in a purchasing, highways maintenance, or construction industry and within an office environment using Microsoft Office software and/or financial systems.
3. Knowledge of current procurement legislation.
4. Excellent communication skills, a willingness to be flexible to undertake a variety of tasks, and a clear approach to planning and organisation to proactively prioritise your workload.
5. Able to compile and interpret reports, analysing information to assist in problem-solving.
6. Adept at dealing with internal and external customers via a variety of communication methods.
7. Competent at entering and retrieving data from computer systems in line with business processes to support the efficient delivery of services.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity, and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Sana Mahomed, Purchasing Supervisor
Telephone: 0116 3055897
Email: sana.mahomed@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.
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