Staffordshire Police
Senior Procurement Officer
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Job Title: Senior Procurement Officer
Grade: £40,838 - £47,046
Contract Type: Permanent
Staffordshire Police is continually striving to deliver the best possible service for the county’s residents, businesses, and visitors. It is a fast-paced organization, adaptive to modern policing needs and open to continual improvement.
Everyone who works for the force has an important role to play in shaping the future of Staffordshire Police. The force seeks people who will champion new ways of working, be collaborative and agile, and represent in a fair and ethical manner those that Staffordshire Police serves.
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About The Opportunity
Commercial Services is an integral part of the Enabling Services Directorate at Staffordshire Police, and their purpose is to ensure our operational colleagues are supported with the correct tools to be able to deliver their critical jobs. The Commercial Services department currently consists of a team of colleagues working across Procurement, Purchasing, Insurance, and Sustainability.
There is currently an exciting new role within our Commercial Services Team, as a Senior Procurement Officer.
This is a fantastic opportunity where you will work within a shared services Procurement Team who are responsible for delivery of Procurement Services to Staffordshire Police, Staffordshire Fire & Rescue, and the Staffordshire Commissioner’s Office. Alongside nine other Procurement and Commercial specialists, you will be accountable for a Procurement Apprentice, within the team of Procurement Officers, to ensure delivery of a robust and strategic approach for negotiating contracts, ensuring compliance is delivered with all procurement activity, and formulating procurement strategies. You will be regarded as a trusted commercial expert offering your expertise for both strategic and transactional procurement. You’ll work closely with colleagues at all levels, attend key boards, and ensure that value for money is achieved, but also keep all organizations compliant with all contractual work against public sector procurement legislation.
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Contract performance management of key and significant contracts will also form part of the role, through participation in Supplier meetings, to demonstrate value for money throughout the contract lifecycle.
Coaching and supporting the Procurement Officers will be pivotal in the role; an individual who can support the Procurement Managers to get the best out of people will be the key to success.
In return, you will work with a supportive and energetic team who will offer shared knowledge and peer support, demonstrating fantastic teamwork! You will report to the Senior Commercial Business Partner, who will support and guide you to ensure you are at your most able to deliver the full role. The team approach is one of working together in a flexible and agile way to deliver results. With our overall objective being to provide commercial excellence delivering contracts that offer value for money, are fit for purpose, and successfully meet the needs of the organizations.
We understand the importance of work/life balance and therefore offer flexible working hours, generous holidays, a good pension, and hybrid agile working. The role offers the salary between £40,383 - £47,046 depending on level of experience.
Further details of the key tasks, responsibilities can be found within the role profile.
Closing date: 3rd August 2026 Midday
Interview date: TBC
In addition to your salary, you will have access to a range of benefits including:
- Pension Scheme - Employers Pension contribution 21.5% Staffordshire Pension Fund
- Generous holiday entitlement, plus Bank Holidays.
- Flexible/Agile Working
- Sick pay scheme
- Fostering friendly policy
- Family friendly policies – maternity, paternity, parental leave, adoption, disability leave, and carers leave
- Access to health and wellbeing support
- Eye care vouchers
- On-site Gyms
- Staff associations
- Reward and Recognition
- Blue light Card
- Flexible working options
- Training and development opportunities
- Car lease scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free Parking at selected sites
- Onsite catering facilities
- Access to Staff Networks
- Union support
- Financial products and services
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Please note that applications are welcomed from all suitably qualified/experienced individuals. However, prior consideration will be given to applications from individuals who are ‘at risk’ and employed by Staffordshire Police. If an appointment is made from that at-risk group, the post may be withdrawn. In this event, a representative from the People Services team will notify any affected applicants.
Staffordshire Police is fully supportive of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and strives to employ a workforce that represents the community we serve.
Our vacancies are open to everyone, and all appointments are made based on merit. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, which include: Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, female, people who have a disability, those who are neurodivergent, and persons of the LGBTQ+ community.
We use positive action to encourage potential candidates from underrepresented groups through targeted step-in support and advice sessions. If you have the skills, experience, and values, that here in Staffordshire Police we pride ourselves on, then we would welcome you to apply.
For more information on Positive Action, please email the team on positive.action@staffordshire.police.uk
For any Recruitment queries, please email hrrecruitment.team@staffordshire.police.uk
Residency Eligibility
Please note you will need to have been a resident in the UK for the last three years consecutively for RV Level roles and five years for MV Level roles (see the below link around Vetting for more information).
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