Procurement Manager Job Description

The Procurement Manager works within the Procurement Division which is responsible for the company Procurement Strategy and its effective implementation to deliver best value across the whole range of purchasing requirements. It also delivers best value solutions and services to Business partners to help them to meet their business objectives in an efficient and effective manner.

Responsibilities

  1. Building and managing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve common goals.
  2. Providing day-to-day advice on procurement matters.
  3. Maintaining a thorough and ongoing knowledge of procurement processes and contract types. Assisting the development of procurement and contacting requirements.
  4. Ensuring Corporate Governance, Procurement Governance and Propriety.
  5. Liaising with relevant departments on the development of new forms of contract to ensure these meet the needs of the Agency
  6. Reviewing lessons learnt and feedback to PD policy holders
  7. Develop and support professional services contract forms and documents and their implementation
  8. Develop and support the company over-arching approach to frameworks

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Qualifications

Essential:

  1. A proven track-record in managing major procurement exercises, (inviting/selecting tenders, managing contracts) and/or contract development work and/or developing suppliers.
  2. Computer literacy using Microsoft Office products, such as, Word, Excel, Project and Powerpoint.

Experience

Programme and Project Management

  1. Monitor project progress against the plan and makes necessary adjustments
  2. Engages constructively with stakeholders, including them in project team meetings when appropriate
  3. Learn lessons from the project as it is implemented, and feeds them back to the team.

Customer Service

  1. Seeks customer feedback on current service performance levels.
  2. Takes early action to resolve potential service issues.
  3. Identifies opportunities to improve the service offered to a diverse customer base.

Partnership Working and Stakeholder Management

  1. Consults partners and stakeholders in decision making and / or communicates the rationale behind the decisions clearly.
  2. Works closely with partners and stakeholders to achieve common goals.
  3. Monitors and gathers information about the quality of the relationship with partner organisations.

Communicating and Marketing

  1. Able to adapt communication style to suit the recipient.
  2. Facilitates and / or chairs meetings and formal discussion forums effectively to achieve clear, agreed outcomes.

Strategic Thinking

Considers the wider implications of own and team's activities (including legal, political and environmental), recognising and tracking impact beyond own area of interest; Identifies the potential longer-term impacts of present day activities on the future.

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