Location: Sale Waterside Centre, 1 Waterside, M33 7ZF
Salary range: £42,708 - £48,710
Trafford council is a Living Wage Employer.
Working Pattern: Full Time
Working hours: 36.25
We will offer flexibility where we can; if you are interested in a role, please speak to the recruiting manager about what flexibility they might consider.
Many of our colleagues can work from home for one or more days a week and/or they flex the hours they work. We call this SMART working, which gives you the option to flex your days and hours so you can fit your work around your life and life around your work.
Contract type: Permanent
Application deadline: 9th March 2025
Interview date: 13th 18th March 2025
About STAR Procurement:
Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Knowsley, and St. Helen’s have a ground-breaking, strategic, shared procurement service, STAR Procurement. STAR Procurement has been established for over nine years and we continue to deliver exceptional results for our partners. Our STAR Business Plan shows our direction of travel, the importance of collaboration, and the key role that procurement plays in delivering collaborative transformation.
Due to retirement, we now have an opening within the team for a Category Manager (People).
In return for your contribution and commitment, you can expect an excellent package, investment in training and development, and the opportunity to shape your career in an environment where the strategic significance and positive impact of procurement is recognised. Further, involvement in a shared service which works closely with the rest of Greater Manchester (GM) and other local authorities will give successful candidates the opportunity to work across the public sector.
If you can match our enthusiasm to succeed, are looking for a new challenge, and want to make a real contribution to our success, we would like to hear from you.
About the Role:
We’re looking for commercially minded individuals to lead procurement activity and provide quality procurement advice to our customers across a wide range of subject areas. The main priorities are detailed within the role profile.
We are asking candidates to submit their CV and a covering letter. Your CV must demonstrate experience which enables you to meet the role described and hit the ground running. The covering letter should detail how specific transferable skills detailed in your CV enable you to meet the main priorities of the Role and the ‘About you’ description below.
About you:
Your style and approach will reflect STAR’s values and behaviours: you will be committed to continually learning & improving the way you do things to ensure effective outcomes; you will take ownership of your actions and strive to get things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.
You’ll also be able to demonstrate experience in leading procurement activity within the public sector context, working at pace when required, and be prepared to work across multiple clients and projects at any one time.
Your personality should reflect the Council's EPIC values and behaviours. You will:
* Empower staff to be confident in decisions through support, training, and guidance.
* Be People Centred by valuing all people within and external to STAR and will act with honesty and integrity.
* Be Inclusive by valuing and respecting the diversity and richness difference brings.
* Collaborate through equality and working together to get things done.
Additional Information:
You will have flexibility in terms of hybrid working at home and in the office, as well as customer offices when required.
To apply, please submit your CV together with a covering letter.
CONTACT DETAILS:
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Lynda Brookes on 07876 442963 or email Lynda.brookes@star-procurement.gov.uk.
About the benefits:
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values-based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford.
Trafford recognises the importance of staff wellbeing and offers a number of initiatives for staff including mental health first aiders, staff network groups (LGBT+/Carers/BAME/Disability), and health and wellbeing events.
Our great benefits include:
* Local Government Pension Scheme
* Home Technology Scheme
* Car Lease Scheme
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Simply Healthcare
* Employee Discount Scheme - 'Perks at Work'
* Ability to ‘buy back’ extra annual leave
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
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