Senior Procurement Officer - 3 Month Contract

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Procurement Officer for a 3-month contract on a rate of £396/Day. This role is hybrid-based with 2 days a week in the office (mostly Mondays and Wednesdays).

Responsibilities

• To plan, project manage, and deliver efficient, effective, and legally compliant tendering processes for Research Groups and teams. Provide added-value services which meet customers’ needs, achieve value for money and quality of goods, services, and works, analyse and manage risks effectively, and ensure probity, and maintain project and contract documentation and management reports.
• To engage with senior stakeholders in Departments, to agree procurement needs, priorities, and resourcing, and deliver major procurement projects on time and on budget. To develop common approaches to market through agreed commodity procurement strategies, which meet the Strategy 2030 objectives.
• To manage suppliers’ performance against contracts and appropriate Key Performance Indicators, and their relationships with our main clients, seeking continuous service improvements, innovation, and in-life cost savings. Maintain communications with other suppliers to provide advice on current and future requirements, to develop competition, deliver corporate social responsibility, and process efficiency (e.g., e-commerce), emphasising these benefits to suppliers and customers.
• To work closely with Operational Procurement to deliver a first-class procurement service, ensuring the content on the ERP system (‘People and Money’) and other relevant procurement sites remains accurate, and that procurement processes are streamlined and facilitate compliant procurement.
• To analyse expenditure records, seeking opportunities to reduce duplication and inappropriate sourcing; identifying areas for consolidation of business onto fewer and better suppliers; and creating strategic relationships that deliver innovation and true partnership benefits. To work as part of the wider Finance Team to streamline processes in goods, services, and works procurement.
• To develop, with the Category Head, and provide appropriate web-based, face to face, or other format guidance and training to staff in Departments and externally where appropriate. To disseminate best practice and project governance including whole life costing and project investment / ROI appraisal that delivers true value for money, cash savings, and efficient and effective processes.