Senior Procurement Officer

Rate - £500 (A Day)

Duration - 6 months (Initially)

Location - London (Hybrid)

Ir35 - Inside (Must use an umbrella company)

As a Senior Procurement Officer, you'll help us deliver the procurement strategy and policy across the organisation. You'll support the work of the Procurement Team by providing advice and guidance to a wide range of stakeholders. You will take ownership of procurement projects (RfQs and RfPs) and running full tenders which can range between £30k and £Ms. You'll be responsible for maintaining our procurement systems; Workday (P2P), Jaggaer (E-procurement tools) and Hornbill (procurement ticketing system).

• Procurement Business Partner for Customer Connect & Workspaces and Communications - ownership and relationship management for both Directorates.
• Maintaining and managing relationships with the internal and external stakeholders, including senior leaders and Executive Team members on procurement projects and initiatives.
• Drafting documents such as procurement strategies, tender evaluation reports and Single Tender Actions and contributing to Business Cases and Business Justification documents.
• Managing our procurement tools; Workday, Jaggaer and Hornbill having responsibility for maintenance, improvements, integration with external systems such as the government's Central Digital Platform.
• Drafting tender documents, configuring and running tender events on our E-procurement tool - Jaggaer.
• Managing procurement projects and RfPs for a wide range services.
• Analysing information from various sources and using your skills to identify opportunities to source alternative suppliers and reduce our costs.
• Keeping your knowledge up to date as procurement legislation evolves.
• Taking personal responsibility for delivering on your objectives in line with our values.

Your experience includes:

• Having a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular manipulating complex data in Excel as well as a range of e-sourcing and procurement tools.
• Having strong knowledge and experience of public sector procurement and having attained CIPS L6 accreditation.
• Experience in running large open procurement competitions and call off contracts through the use of existing public sector frameworks and having an understanding of the UK Public Contracts Regulations.
• Using your strong numeracy (and MS Excel) skills to analyse data and drafting quarterly reports for the Exec Team and Board.
• Strong communications skills to guide a range of internal and external stakeholders through processes and the ability to run training sessions as required.
• Stakeholder management skills with the ability to deliver difficult messages.
• Being inquisitive and able to think logically - you'll understand and identify with our key stakeholder needs and queries and have the confidence to provide accurate advice.
• Using your skills to juggle several pieces of work at once - you'll be working on a range of projects at any given time.
• Using your initiative to identify areas where systems and processes can be improved.
• Working well with your colleagues - you'll know what it means to be a good team player.