Senior Procurement Officer - London

Senior Procurement Officer

Rate - 500 (A Day)

Duration - 6 Months (Initially)

Location - London (Hybrid)

Ir35 - Inside (Must use an umbrella company)

As a Senior Procurement Officer, you'll help us deliver the procurement strategy and policy across the organisation. You'll support the work of the Procurement Team by providing advice and guidance to a wide range of stakeholders. You will take ownership of procurement projects (RfQs and RfPs) and running full tenders which can range between 30k and Ms. You'll be responsible for maintaining our procurement systems; Workday (P2P), Jaggaer (e-Procurement tools) and Hornbill (procurement ticketing system).

• Procurement Business Partner for Customer Connect & Workspaces and Communications - ownership and relationship management for both Directorates.
• Maintaining and managing relationships with the internal and external stakeholders, including senior leaders and Executive Team members on procurement projects and initiatives.
• Drafting documents such as procurement strategies, tender evaluation reports and Single Tender Actions and contributing to Business Cases and Business Justification documents.
• Managing our procurement tools; Workday, Jaggaer and Hornbill having responsibility for maintenance, improvements, integration with external systems such as the government's Central Digital Platform.
• Drafting tender documents, configuring and running tender events on our e-procurement tool - Jaggaer.
• Managing procurement projects and RfPs for a wide range services.
• Analysing information from various sources and using your skills to identify opportunities to source alternative suppliers and reduce our costs.
• Keeping your knowledge up to date as procurement legislation evolves.
• Taking personal responsibility for delivering on your objectives in line with our values.

Your experience includes:

• Having a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular manipulating complex data in Excel as well as a range of e-sourcing and procurement tools.
• Having strong knowledge and experience of public sector procurement and having attained CIPS L6 accreditation.
• Experience in running large open procurement competitions and call off contracts through the use of existing public sector frameworks and having an understanding of the UK Public Contracts Regulations.
• Using your strong numeracy (and MS Excel) skills to analyse data and drafting quarterly reports for the Exec Team and Board.
• Strong communications skills to guide a range of internal and external stakeholders through processes and the ability to run training sessions as required.
• Stakeholder management skills with the ability to deliver difficult messages.
• Being inquisitive and able to think logically - you'll understand and identify with our key stakeholder needs and queries and have the confidence to provide accurate advice.
• Using your skills to juggle several pieces of work at once - you'll be working on a range of projects at any given time.
• Using your initiative to identify areas where systems and processes can be improved.
• Working well with your colleagues - you'll know what it means to be a good team player.