Job Description
Role: Procurement Officer
Organisation: Isle of White Council
Location: Isle of White - Hybrid or Remote options available
Type: Permanent
Salary: 35k to 41k
About the Procurement Officer position:
Sellick Partnership is exclusively recruiting a Permanent Procurement Manager for Isle of White Council. This role comes with a competitive salary and offers a hybrid work arrangement to suit your work-life balance.
Purpose of the Procurement Officer:
- Contribute to the delivery of the council's procurement and contract management strategy
- Contribute to ensuring efficient and effective procurement processes are used in line with best practice
- Deliver value for money and maximise savings and benefits from procurement activity
- Ensure accurate, auditable records of all procurement processes are maintained, which demonstrate high process compliance.
Key duties and responsibilities of the Procurement Officer:
- Support the preparation of the commissioners' requirements, identifying and proposing opportunities for cost reduction
- Identify and evaluate the most appropriate route to market, including available or developing frameworks/Dynamic Markets, and collaborative working, and propose a preferred option
- Coordinate the preparation of documents for use in the tendering process
- Support the preparation of a draft contract
- Support the tendering process, which may include co-ordinating queries raised from tenderers and sending responses
- Conduct market analysis
- Coordinate the formal award of contracts
Required experience of the Procurement Officer:
- Experience in undertaking procurement activities
- Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with client departments.
How to apply for the Procurement Officer:
Please get in touch with Adam Rouse in the Derby office for more information.
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