Procurement Category Manager - Resources

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BCP Council, Accrington, Lancashire

Full time
Temporary
Remote working

Posted today, 23 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 1c7bae1b3b9e45d6807f22beea64978d

BCP Council

Full Job Description

Personal Summary - please provide an overview of your procurement experience within the Resources category
Skills and competencies - please describe how you meet each criteria detailed within "The Ideal Candidate"
Experience - please describe your experience against each of the numbered criteria detailed within "Main Responsibilities", We are seeking a proactive and experienced Resources Category Procurement Manager to join our Procurement and Contract Management Service. This is a unique opportunity to lead procurement activities across the Resources Category, ensuring best value procurement and compliance with regulations, while delivering high-quality services that positively impact our communities. Reporting to the Head of Procurement and Contract Management you will collaborate closely with senior management, key stakeholders, and internal teams, contributing to the continuous improvement of procurement processes that support vital council services.
To ensure that the Resources Category is lead, developed and co-ordinated consistently with the quality standards of the strategic procurement and contract management service ensuring that all procurement activity maximises value for money within a best practice approach.
To deliver, in partnership with other directorates, significant savings to the Council by means of applying a commercial approach and influencing innovative service redesign and procurement.
To support the Head of Service in delivering change and innovation to equip the Service for future challenges and budget pressures, We are seeking a proactive and experienced Resources Category Procurement Manager to join our Procurement and Contract Management Service. This is a unique opportunity to lead procurement activities across the Resources Category, ensuring best value procurement and compliance with regulations, while delivering high-quality services that positively impact our communities. Reporting to the Head of Procurement and Contract Management you will collaborate closely with senior management, key stakeholders, and internal teams, contributing to the continuous improvement of procurement processes that support vital council services.
To ensure that the Resources Category is lead, developed and co-ordinated consistently with the quality standards of the strategic procurement and contract management service ensuring that all procurement activity maximises value for money within a best practice approach.
To deliver, in partnership with other directorates, significant savings to the Council by means of applying a commercial approach and influencing innovative service redesign and procurement.
To support the Head of Service in delivering change and innovation to equip the Service for future challenges and budget pressures., Stakeholder management requiring a high degree of persuasion, advocacy and decision making, to identify opportunities for corporate frameworks and organisation-wide contracts, including contentious and complex opportunities, to drive best value procurement. Use effective internal communication methodologies to keep stakeholders well informed and position procurement as a collaborative force driving positive change.
Represent Resources Category at Senior Management Team for BCP's Procurement and Contract Management Service. Work closely with the Head of Service to contribute to service improvement and the planning and delivery of procurement priorities to complement the business planning process for the directorate and the future plans of the council.
Lead, motivate and manage staff to deliver a high quality, flexible and responsive service to internal customers and suppliers within different specialist areas of work including IT services and infrastructure, office supplies and furniture, Human Resources, Legal, Financial Services, Estates, Facilities Management (soft) ensuring that effective arrangements are in place for corporate frameworks and organisation-wide contracts managed by the Resources Category.
Ensure effective budget monitoring arrangements are in place for all centralised buying budgets within Resources Category (e.g. stationery) and that timely corrective action is taken to deal with any variances and eventualities that arise.
Ensure full compliance across the Resources Category, with all relevant UK procurement regulations and the Council's Financial Regulations and the Council's strategies, policies, procedures and systems including finance, procurement and legal governance, risk management, performance monitoring, information governance and staff performance management.
Ensure that data is accurately recorded for all procurement activity, to Service quality standards, to support reporting requirements. Develop, analyse and respond to business intelligence data relating to Resources Category procurement activity.
Monitor the external market for Resources Category ensuring, where possible, the Council positions itself appropriately. Ensure appropriate use of early supply market engagement to seek new and innovative ideas to influence the definition of the requirements within Resources Category.
Represent the Service and the Council in inter-council forums, working parties, local and regional bodies to contribute to the exchange of information and the promotion of best practice developments.
To establish and maintain project management arrangements for the delivery of the procurement work programme across the Resources Category, taking responsibility for ensuring project delivery.