Strategic Procurement Officer
Duration: Initially 3 months with an option to extend further
Hours: 37 hours a week
Rate: £280 umbrella a day (£220 PAYE a day)
Gloucestershire County Council are looking for a Strategic Procurement Officer to join their Adult Social Care Service. There is a requirement to be on site a least twice a week.
Responsibilities:
*You will support or lead tender activity or act in a support role to provide specialist support or analytical services to the team or its customers.
*Provide commissioners or other clients with pragmatic and informed advice so that customer outcomes and value for money requirements met or exceeded
*Utilise specialist knowledge or expertise to achieve superior outcomes
*Undertake market and supplier research 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
*Assess and manage to risk associated with each activity
*Prepare a procurement strategy that describes your procurement findings and recommended approach
Requirements
*Demonstrate a good level of procurement knowledge and expertise, ideally within Adult Social Care
*Experience working in a procurement or commissioning environment
*Experience of managing significant or complex tenders
*High level of knowledge about procurement in the public sector
*High level of literacy and numeracy evidenced by GCSEs Grade A-C (particularly in Maths and English)
*Hold or be working towards CIPS Level 3 or equivalent