Summary: The Senior Procurement Officer will manage high-value and complex tenders within the Council's Strategic Procurement Service on an initial 4-month contract, with the potential for extension. The role requires developing relationships with key stakeholders and demonstrating commercial expertise to support the Council's commercial needs. Success in this position hinges on effective communication and the ability to navigate complex procurement processes. The officer will also be responsible for assessing risks and maximizing social value in procurement activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use specialist knowledge or expertise, e.g. supplier or market research, cost modelling, risk transfer or benchmarking to achieve outcomes
• Use information and analysis to inform the development of commissioning and commercial thinking
• Undertake or lead discreet procurement projects and attend project/review board meetings as required
• Assess Social Value and work to maximise it through your work
• Ensure effective communication and engagement with stakeholders and partners (including external suppliers)
• Assess and manage the risk associated with each activity
• Keep up-to-date with relevant policy, best practice and legislative changes
• Work on complex innovative or higher risk tenders or in areas where the supply market is less well developed

Key Skills:

• Proven delivery skills and experience of working to tight, pressurised deadlines in complex matrix-managed organisations
• Knowledge of procurement regulations and at least a good/expert understanding of contract law, risk management and contract management
• An ability to compile a tender to achieve the desired outcomes and deliver best value for money, and an appropriate balance of risk and reward
• Worked in a procurement or commissioning environment
• Worked with less direct supervision or guidance where the project is a service solution that is perhaps less developed or more innovative
• Translated often technical or complex commissioning needs and outcomes into specification and tender documents
• Experience in managing significant or complex tenders
• Researched markets and suppliers and understand how to develop a tender to gain maximum value for money whilst managing risk
• Evaluated the makeup of cost and used cost reduction techniques to improve value for money
• Built and maintained productive relationships, including those with key stakeholders and external organisations
• Worked in a structured or project-based environment

Salary (Rate): £380

City: Gloucester

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Other