Senior Purchasing Officer

Role Responsibility

This is a permanent position, working within the Community Care Purchasing Team. It is an exciting role for a confident, proactive and positive individual, working within Adult Social Care. Team are currently working from home with the availability to work in an office if desired.

This would be an ideal position for a candidate with a solid background in technical support with a strong understanding of IT and Microsoft systems looking to develop or build upon their skills while working within the social care sector for the local authority. The role requires an advanced understanding and experience using IT systems.

The role will involve a wide range of technical support work including project support, process building, reporting and analytics. You will be able to deal with issues of a confidential and sensitive nature appropriately. You will be confident in communicating regularly with internal and external stakeholders, prioritise your work, and work with a high level of autonomy.

You will have excellent IT skills as tasks will include modifying and retrieving data on systems and running reports and building systems to support the wider purchasing function. The ability to resolve system issues is essential requiring strong understanding of Microsoft packages.

You will be confident, flexible, able to work well within a busy team and prioritise your workload.

Full induction and training will be given.

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.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Interviews will take place on week commencing 28th August 2023.

Contact Details

For any further information contact Holly Bourke, Community Care Purchasing Senior, on 03000 412979

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.