Corporate Procurement Technical Officer - Durham, United Kingdom - LSS (Staff Recruitment and Training Agency)

LSS (Staff Recruitment and Training Agency)
LSS (Staff Recruitment and Training Agency)
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Durham, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Purpose


To provide professional procurement technical support to the organisation to support the establishment, development and ongoing performance of a proactive, modern and strategic Corporate Procurement function suitable to meet the requirements of the unitary authority.


Roles and Responsibilities

  • To provide support to procurement projects to assist to ensure that all procurement spend is managed strategically to achieve sustainable community benefits and continuous improvement in service delivery.
  • To provide projectspecific support to the officer lead for sustainable procurement.
  • To provide professional procurement consultancy support and advice to service areas, and partner organisations in their procurement activity for devolved procurement projects
  • To develop and deliver procurement training activities to all procurement staff, Members including in service areas and partner organisations.
  • Making payments to organisations and making collection of service level agreement charges and rebates in an effective and efficient manner in accordance with agreed timescales
  • To develop and present information, presentation data, benchmarking data and general procurement data and information.
  • To deliver small procurement, purchasing and contracting projects.
  • To assist in the preparation of various procurement policies, procurement systems, procurement processes and code of practice/tool kits.
  • To maintain a library of various elements of procurement data and information.
  • To liaise with other County Council departments and external partners and attend meetings with internal and external agencies as required.
  • In support of procurement activities to arrange meetings, venues, events, liaising with attendees/organisations, and supporting the event.
  • To establish, manage and maintain the corporate procurement data systems to ensure that all relevant information is managed and retrieved efficiently.
  • To manage general and confidential procurement enquiries and correspondence on behalf of the Corporate Procurement team.
  • To carry out general procurement research and studies and to acquire and continually update knowledge of the legislation and policies and procedures of the Service in respect of relevant area of work
  • To support category Procurement Officers relevant to procurement evaluations and assessments
  • To identify and develop improvements in procurement delivery across the function.
  • To line manage staff as and when appropriate to ensure delivery of operational and strategic objectives.

Please note:
This vacancy is for 3 days per week only. (WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY).

Mandatory Compliance Requirements

  • CV
  • Eligibility to work in the UK.
  • The last two years written references with all gaps verified.
  • CIPS qualification at Level
  • Experience working in same or similar role.
  • A team with over 20 years Administration Public Sector/Trades/Built Environment/Construction Recruitment experience
  • Access to a wide selection of vacancies across the UK
  • The choice of PAYE or Limited company schemes
  • Weekly payroll service
  • Excellent rates of pay

Job Type:
Part-time


Salary:
£11.00-£11.18 per hour


Work Location:
In person
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