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We are seeking an Assistant Procurement Manager to support the Procurement Manager in enhancing the procurement function within the Council, with a particular focus on the HRA Housing Function.
The ideal candidate will be the HRA procurement expert within the procurement team and will have local authority experience, especially in the Housing sector.
The Procurement Manager will proactively engage with the business to understand and support their strategy through the sourcing and management of third-party suppliers to extract maximum value, bring innovation and mitigate supplier risk for new and existing contracts and relationships.
The Procurement Manager will need to be able to identify and then lead commercial negotiations with third parties and drive a culture of competitiveness and effective risk management becoming a trusted advisor to the business.
The role will support Canada Life Business Leaders, Contract business owners for key contracts and sourcing events.
The role will need to be able to quickly manage a competitive tendering process with our preferred and potentially new suppliers, whilst working with the business requestors to accurately document specifications/project briefs and drive a behavioural change to ensure competitive bidding and outcome-based statement of works whilst managing the third parties during the quote and award process.
The UK Procurement and Supplier Governance team proactively engage with the business to drive strategy in line with corporate objectives and manage Canada Life's suppliers to extract maximum value for the organization from existing contracts and relationships.
You will liaise with key business stakeholders across Canada Life to ensure favourable commercial terms which mitigate business risk, deliver the required business outcomes whilst delivering value for money and culturing an environment for supplier innovation.
We seek passionate Procurement Officers to work collaboratively with our suppliers around the world, enabling us to provide world leading defence capabilities for our home Nations and their Allies.
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We lead commercial relationships with UK and overseas companies, which are typically the design authority for the articles procured.