Senior Procurement Officer

Role Responsibility

As part of a workforce expansion, we have some exciting new opportunities for highly motivated individuals to join the Strategic Commissioning Procurement & Commercial team as Senior Procurement Officers. Opportunities available will be considered on a permanent, fixed term or secondment basis, determined on the area of business need.

The Procurement and Commercial team work across Directorates to deliver the work pipeline to support its business objectives. Categories include:

• Growth and Communities
• Environment and Waste
• Highways and Transportation
• Property
• Facilities Management
• Consultancy
• Indirects (Common Goods and Services) – including Finance, HR, ITC

These roles will support the Procurement Lead in commercial procurement within categories that could include Indirects (including but not limited to Finance, People and Comms, HR, ITC), Property Construction and the Growth, Environment and Transportation areas.

You may have line management responsibility for 1 or 2  team members.

You will:

• Have excellent work ethic, be highly organized and able to manage multiple projects;
• Be able to demonstrate a strong knowledge within either the Indirects Category, Property Construction  or the Growth, Environment and Transportation areas.
• Have understanding of category management principles;
• Have strong commercial acumen with demonstrable stakeholder relationship management skills;
• Have experience with managing public sector procurement processes that comply with legal frameworks as well as corporate and government policies;
• Be able to formulate a well evidenced commercial case / procurement plan based on KCC’s service requirements;
• Have experience using online sourcing system(s) to facilitate procurement processes;
• Have experience with negotiating and developing services contracts; and
• Have excellent excel and word skills

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews: w/c 6^th June 2022 (please note due to Hybrid working practices, interviews will be set up to be undertaken remotely. More information will be provided should you be invited to interview)

Contact Details

For more information regarding this role, please contact:

Carolyne Harrington  03000 416959

or

Robert Clark 03000 415951

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.