Role of Procurement Manager in the Public Sector

The role of Procurement Manager in the public sector involves overseeing procurement activities and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.

Client Details

This opportunity is with a respected organisation in the public sector, known for managing critical infrastructure projects and services. As a large organisation, it offers a structured and professional environment to support career development within procurement and supply chain management.

Description

• Develop and manage the sourcing process from business requirement to contract signature, on behalf of key customers and stakeholders, for multi-million-pound medium cost and business risk opportunities, utilising, where relevant, commercial purpose-built models, to create and deliver significant commercial and contractual value, in support of the annual savings target
• Implement approved category strategies through the development and delivery of the sourcing pipeline, in collaboration with the relevant customers and stakeholders, to release the full defined savings and benefits.
• Apply the Sourcing Framework for sourcing led opportunities where total annual spend ranges between £100m to £300m and within an FTS environment, to manage all risk, governance, legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Expert negotiator of sourcing enabled savings and benefit opportunities, in collaboration with all relevant customers and stakeholders.
• Develop and implement sourcing specific ideas and innovation-based business cases, working in collaboration with relevant customers and stakeholders, to address existing business problems that require external sourcing specific market expertise to solve.
• Facilitate the transition of sourcing led execution to supplier management, to manage a seamless customer experience from business requirement through to post contract signature.
• Manage and challenge customer and stakeholder sourcing requirements to maximise overall commercial value, direct and indirect influencing and selling strategies in a complex, devolved organisation.
• Develop and manage sourcing aligned continuous improvement activities, demand pipeline assessments and annual customer satisfaction surveys, to deliver an enhanced customer experience.
• Develop market sourcing practices, to include commercial models and total cost of ownership assessments to enable the implementation of good practice.