What's involved with this role: Temporary Procurement Business Partner Reference no: Cumbria BL TCL 361560 Pay Rate: up to £19.18 per hour PAYE depending on experience 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 6 months City: PENRITH Recruitment Vetting(RV) Hybrid, office & working from home P/T considered NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure. Increase capacity of the Commercial team to deal with workload. Looking for innovative and creative individual with skills, knowledge, and experience of working within a Public Sector procurement environment. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: RV Clearance Qualifications: Relevant professional qualification (ideally CIPS level 4 or above/ working towards), and/or relevant experience in this field. Knowledge: Working knowledge of public procurement regulations/ working in a Public Sector procurement environment. Experience: Procurement practitioner experience of undertaking quote & tender exercises Experience in stakeholder/customer engagement/ supplier relationship & contract management. Experience of developing/delivering effective working alliances, partnerships, and services. Experience of Oracle/ oracle Fusion, E-tendering portals & contract databases - desirable Skills & Abilities: Good IT skills Excellent communication, team working/leadership skills. Ability to effectively prioritise own and other workloads Good problem solving and innovative thinking. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please