Procurement Officer
Description✓Job Overview
✓To provide support to a team or business unit to support the procurement and/or management of contracts, in accordance with Council governance and regulations, procurement legislation and best practice.
✓Key Responsibilities Contract Management/Supplier Relationship Management [SRM]
✓* Support the management of contracts so that they are performed and monitored in accordance with contractual KPI’s, compliance, processes and are in line with Council policy, procedures and governance.
✓* Act as the main point of contact for contracts to enable the processing and handling of enquiries from service users and suppliers to support their needs.
✓* Collate financial information and monitor budgetary expense or income streams proactively, to enable the service and associated contracts to be delivered in accordance with financial requirements
✓* Support projects to improve contracts or services, to help ensure that they are delivered in accordance with quality, time and cost requirements.
✓Specific Qualifications and Experience
✓* Educated to A Level or equivalent
✓* Understanding of procurement and contracting processes, including those relating to the development of specifications and contract documents, and payments.
✓* Experience of using procurement and contracting procedures [including legal and regulatory requirements and the risks of non-compliance] and within tight timeframes against monitored deliverables.
✓* Experience of using e-procurement and tendering portals
✓* Excellent IT [including the use of Excel, Word and Outlook] and analytical skills
✓Personal Qualities & Attributes
✓* Ability to plan and organise own work and deal with competing demands.
✓* Ability to have a flexible approach to workload, understanding different customer needs
✓* Ability to use interpersonal skills to listen to others and new ideas in a constructive and positive manner and to develop solutions to a range of problems.
✓* Ability to communicate effectively and cause understanding in others, including challenging unhelpful behaviour, drawing on knowledge of services and procurement/contractual regulations and associated processes to build supportive, positive and trusting relationships.
✓Job Requirements
✓• Must hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to either their own car or a pool car in order to undertake the duties of the role, unless other forms of transport are available and viable to perform the role Show more →
✓To provide support to a team or business unit to support the procurement and/or management of contracts, in accordance with Council governance and regulations, procurement legislation and best practice.
✓Key Responsibilities Contract Management/Supplier Relationship Management [SRM]
✓* Support the management of contracts so that they are performed and monitored in accordance with contractual KPI’s, compliance, processes and are in line with Council policy, procedures and governance.
✓* Act as the main point of contact for contracts to enable the processing and handling of enquiries from service users and suppliers to support their needs.
✓* Collate financial information and monitor budgetary expense or income streams proactively, to enable the service and associated contracts to be delivered in accordance with financial requirements
✓* Support projects to improve contracts or services, to help ensure that they are delivered in accordance with quality, time and cost requirements.
✓Specific Qualifications and Experience
✓* Educated to A Level or equivalent
✓* Understanding of procurement and contracting processes, including those relating to the development of specifications and contract documents, and payments.
✓* Experience of using procurement and contracting procedures [including legal and regulatory requirements and the risks of non-compliance] and within tight timeframes against monitored deliverables.
✓* Experience of using e-procurement and tendering portals
✓* Excellent IT [including the use of Excel, Word and Outlook] and analytical skills
✓Personal Qualities & Attributes
✓* Ability to plan and organise own work and deal with competing demands.
✓* Ability to have a flexible approach to workload, understanding different customer needs
✓* Ability to use interpersonal skills to listen to others and new ideas in a constructive and positive manner and to develop solutions to a range of problems.
✓* Ability to communicate effectively and cause understanding in others, including challenging unhelpful behaviour, drawing on knowledge of services and procurement/contractual regulations and associated processes to build supportive, positive and trusting relationships.
✓Job Requirements
✓• Must hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to either their own car or a pool car in order to undertake the duties of the role, unless other forms of transport are available and viable to perform the role Show more →