Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor – Basildon Borough Council
Posted 6 days ago by Essex County Council
£38 Per hour
Inside
Onsite
Basildon, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor at Basildon Borough Council is responsible for developing and delivering service projects through effective business cases and commercial plans. This role involves providing financial governance, managing contracts, and ensuring compliance with procurement procedures. The advisor will also foster collaboration with various sectors to enhance service quality and drive financial savings. The position requires a minimum of one day on-site work per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide updates on the Commercial Agenda to the Senior Leadership Team and elected members.
- Offer commercial insights on procurement opportunities and contract management across the Council.
- Lead the development of a robust contract management framework.
- Manage procurement activities in accordance with contract procedure rules.
- Oversee all aspects of programme/project management including project plans and risk registers.
- Monitor and update Benefit Realisation plans in collaboration with Service Managers.
- Align resource planning with the Council's Corporate Plan and MTFS.
- Provide assurance for projects within Commercial Services.
- Develop robust commercial business cases.
- Build partnerships with public, private, and third sector organizations.
- Embed a commercial culture within the Council.
- Optimize technology use to improve service quality and generate savings.
- Advise on commercially marketing and selling services and products.
- Ensure compliance with legislation and Council policies.
Key Skills:
- Local Government Procurement Experience.
Salary (Rate): £38.48 hourly
City: Basildon
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
About The Role
Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor – Basildon Borough Council
Basildon, Essex
£30.00 PAYE / £38.48 Umbrella
6 Months Contract
Full-Time, Temporary – 36.25 hours per week.
Closing Date: Monday 8th December 2025
Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Basildon Council to recruit a Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor on a full-time, temporary basis. Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be required to be on-site a minimum of 1 day per week.
Main Purpose: Responsible for supporting the organisation in developing and delivering a range of service projects through robust business cases and detailed commercial programmes and plans. The Commercial programme is directly linked to the Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy and the post holder provides strong financial governance; as well as tracking progress and key dependencies, maintaining issue logs, projects plans and ensuring robust risk management. Programmes and projects may be cross cutting within the organisation and with external parties.
Job duties:
- To provide the Senior Leadership Team and elected members with updates on the Commercial Agenda.
- To provide commercial view on procurement opportunities, ongoing contract management and contract reviews across the Council.
- To lead the development of robust contract management framework throughout the authority..
- To lead in activities during the procurement of relevant goods, works and services in accordance with contract procedure rules and management of contracts.
- To undertake all aspects of programme/project management including project plans, highlight reports, risk registers and other governance processes.
- To monitor and update the Benefit Realisation plans, liaising with Service Managers.
- To ensure resource planning and outcomes are aligned with the Councils Corporate Plan, Corporate Programme and MTFS.
- Provide assurance for projects and tasks within Commercial Services.
- To lead the development of robust commercial business cases.
- To build strong working partnerships with public, private and third sector organisations in order to maximise collaboration and stimulate financial savings.
- To embed a commercial culture within the Council, supporting our staff to embrace entrepreneurialism, produce new ideas and consider value for money.
- To optimise the Councils use of technology in order to enable new ways of working, generate savings and improve service quality for our staff and residents.
- To advise and support services in commercially marketing and selling services and products.
- Ensure compliance with all appropriate legislation, professional standards and Council policies.
Key skills and experience required:
Local Government Procurement Experience required
Why choose Basildon Council?
Basildon Borough Council is one of the largest local authorities in the East of England region and serves a population of approximately 172,000 people. The town of Basildon is regarded as a key economic hub with the main areas of employment being engineering, research and development, distribution and financial services. Basildon is also the second biggest economy in the Thames Gateway, outside of Canary Wharf. Working for Basildon Borough Council means making a practical and positive difference to the lives of people living and working in the Borough and provides a fulfilling career. Each of our employees - whatever job role they are undertaking - can feel motivated by having a unique opportunity to use their skills to make Basildon a better place to live. Whether it is conserving our countryside, by regenerating our Borough, by housing our residents or by collecting the refuse on time.
Note: ECC are advertising this role on behalf of Basildon Council. Basildon Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults, and expects all employees, contractors and volunteers to share its commitment to prevent abuse, harm or exploitation. The Council applies a robust recruitment vetting process. If you are successful you will need to undergo a Pre-employment Vetting Procedure.
What You Should Do Next
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via Working for Essex website. If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email Ashleigh.Drake@essex.gov.uk