Your newpany
A growing public-sector organisation with an excellent reputation is seeking an experienced public procurement professional to join their friendly team in Leeds as their new Procurement Manager. The organisation has strong core values, and the work you'd be doing will have a direct positive impact on localmunities, so this is a super rewarding opportunity.
Your new role
1. The Procurement Manager is a newly created position within the organisation's structure, so you can truly shape the function and take ownership of procurement and the overall strategy.
2. You will provide strategic guidance and procurement advice to stakeholders across the organisation.
3. You will manage spend across multiple indirect categories, including HR, Facilities, IT, and wider Professional Services, giving you good exposure to a broad array of categories.
4. You'll have lots of autonomy in this role, so you'll need to be a real self starter who is able to independently run end-to-end tenders under the Procurement Act 2023, ensuring that value for money is delivered and that social value is embedded in your procurement activity.
5. In this role, you'll manage the organisation's contracts register, ensuring contractpliance and managing their timely renewals.
Please note this role is based in the Leeds office 5 days per week - there is no hybrid working, so you must be able tofortablymute to the office full-time.
What you'll need to succeed
6. Proven background in UK public-sector procurement with a good working knowledge of PA23 / PCR2015 and public-sector frameworks
7. Experience of independently leading tender processes from end-to-end
8. Able to build and manage supplier relationships
9. Ideally, you'll be minimum CIPS Level 4 qualified (or equivalent), or willingness to study CIPS
10. Excellent stakeholder engagement and stakeholder management skills
11. Able tomute to the office 5 days per week
What you'll get in return
12. Flexible working hours
13. Opportunity to take ownership of and shape the Procurement function
14. CIPS study support
15. Employee assistance programme which is accessible 24/7
16. On-site parking available