Financial Reporting Council
Procurement Manager
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Job Title
This is an opportunity to play a visible role in contributing to the procurement practice across the FRC, working with stakeholders across the organisation and supporting high-quality, compliant procurement outcomes. The successful candidate will provide professional procurement, commercial and contract input to the business, ensuring alignment with FRC policy, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR15) and the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23).
Accountabilities
- Implement procurement best practice to deliver high-quality, compliant and value-focused procurement services for the FRC.
- Manage a range of end-to-end procurement exercises, including the use of Framework Agreements and/or Find a Tender where applicable.
- Manage a portfolio of procurement and contract-related activity, including change control and Notices of Termination.
- Identify and deliver cost savings, process efficiencies and procurement improvements, including contributing to technology solutions that enhance team processes and reporting.
- Work with internal stakeholders to understand business needs, provide procurement advice and support effective delivery of procurement activity.
- Engage with external suppliers to obtain information, quotations, proposals and other procurement-related inputs.
- Maintain and report on data within the FRC’s Contracts Database, ensuring information supports effective management information reporting.
- Design, coordinate and manage tender processes, including preparing tender documents, capturing expressions of interest, managing Q&A, developing evaluation criteria and methodology, and communicating outcomes.
- Support the Head of Procurement & Contracts in delivering the strategic objectives of the procurement function.
- Share knowledge and good practice across the FRC’s procurement team to support consistency, learning and continuous improvement.
- Undertake other procurement, commercial or contract-related activities that are appropriate to the role, skills and level of responsibility.
- Manage procurement and contract-related activity across the role’s portfolio.
- The role requires liaison across the whole organisation.
- External suppliers and stakeholders.
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Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Strong experience of end-to-end procurement activity, including reviewing applicable terms and conditions and supporting compliant commercial decision-making.
- Sound knowledge and experience of public sector procurement, including pre-market engagement, sourcing, contract management and supplier management.
- Good understanding of the professional, legal and regulatory environment in which the procurement function operates, including PCR15 and PA23.
- Qualified or part-qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (MCIPS), or working towards an equivalent professional procurement qualification, is desirable.
Essential Skills
- Ability to build effective relationships with colleagues, suppliers and stakeholders, with a strong customer-service ethos.
- Ability to apply procurement requirements in a practical and proportionate way, using sound judgement to support effective outcomes.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret information and apply sound judgement.
- Ability to manage workload effectively.
- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to review information accurately and identify issues that may require further consideration.
- Excellent IT, written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain procurement requirements clearly to a range of audiences.
Application Instructions
Please apply by uploading a copy of your CV and covering letter as a single document upload. In the covering letter, please set out, by reference to the person specification above how you meet the required skillset.
Rewards and benefits
- The FRC offers remuneration packages, including 30 days annual leave, ability to buy extra leave.
- Generous employer pension contribution of 10%.
- Staff Employee Assistance Programme including confidential counselling and work life services.
- The FRC offers staff the opportunity to save at least 25% on the purchase of a new bike through the Cycle to work scheme.
- The FRC has a strong work/life balance ethos.
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The FRC believes that equality of opportunity and diversity is important in the work that we do and we are strongly committed to being an inclusive employer. Our values of being fair and independent supports this commitment. Equal opportunities monitoring is an important means of demonstrating and implementing our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and diversity. Completing our diversity form will assist the FRC to identify any barriers that prevent access to employment and career development for certain groups of people, and to develop solutions, such as action plans, new policies and practices. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% per month of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager.
Disability Confident Employer
The FRC is a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions, as defined by the Equality Act 2010, who meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
Location
The role is based in our central Birmingham office. The post holder should be able to work flexibly to support the team’s activities and also provide cover within the FRC as necessary. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement with its workforce. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% per month of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices per week, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager.
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