Strategic Procurement Officer

Strategic Procurement Officer

Duration: Initially 3 months with an option to extend furtherHours: 37 hours a weekRate: £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