Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Procurement Manager for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £350-£425/day (Inside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
- Manage procurement activities/ processes (in collaboration with end users)
- Develop/ maintain Contracts Register and manage the procurement pipeline.
- Produce regular reports on procurement activities for Executive Team and Audit & Risk Committee
- Work with outsourced service providers to ensure procurement undertaken on behalf of the organisation are done so in accordance with the procurement policy and relevant regulations and requirements.
- Suggest periodic updates/ improvements to the procurement strategy/ policy
- Represent the organisation in external procurement networks and activities
- To line manage procurement team member
- Drive improvements to effectiveness of the organisation's procurement activities, maximising input from other business areas
- Drive procurement as a means of business improvement/excellence
- Enhance Procurement Champions Network, ensuring participants receive appropriate training/mentoring/support but also assume responsibility for their procurements
- Ensure procurement approaches are commensurate with the scale/complexity of task at hand
- Ownership and delivery of all procurement related activities
- To ensure all procurement activities (including those delivered by outsourced partners (e.g. Managing Agents) satisfy regulatory and legal requirements
- Enhance the Contracts Register, ensuring business-wide compliance and engagement and that our register can inform reporting and business decision making.
- Ensure most effective interfaces with other business systems (e.g. finance system, property management system)
- Lead on production of Annual Procurement Report
- Work with our managing agents to ensure their procurement on our behalf meets the necessary requirements.
Essential Skills:
- 10 years plus experience of managing procurement within the public sector.
- Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills
- Experience throughout contract life cycle – scoping, procurement/ negotiation, contract delivery
- Ability and confidence to hit the ground running
- Educated to degree level (BSc/BA) or equivalent
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.