Sunderland City Council is seeking a suitable candidate to join our Corporate Procurement, eProcurement team. The Corporate Procurement team provides a supportive and professional service to all council service areas and its trading companies to assist them with the delivery of their key priorities and statutory responsibilities.
As a contracting authority, the council must comply with The Procurement Act 2023 and Regulations and the public procurement law principles of equal treatment, non-discrimination and transparency.Therefore, all third party spend must be undertaken in accordance with the Council's constitutionalprocurement procedure rules and operating procedures.
Corporate Procurement work in conjunction with service area commissioners to achieve value for money while considering how procurement activity can support community wealth, building principles, sustainability, local economic development, social value and equality and diversity objectives.
The team consists of two areas, Category Management who are responsible for all procurement activity over £10k and eProcurement which supports service areas upon request for sourcing under £10k as well as purchase ordering, low value sourcing, purchase cards, business travel, market engagement and catalogue management.
Why work for Sunderland City Council
- Automatic enrolment with a pay and reward pension scheme with Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexi time to allow for work-life balance (only where applicable)
- 26 days leave (excluding bank holidays) with the advantage of an additional leave scheme
Role Overview
Based on experience, the post holder will primarily work on internal and external eProcurement systems. Carry out Market Engagement with local, regional and national suppliers, flexibly supporting our internal and external customers and work with Category Officers/Managers within the team. The post holder will work on Microsoft office applications and be able to work to tight deadlines and agreed timescales.
Key Requirements
The successful candidate must possess excellent communication, IT, and accuracy skills, along with the ability to analyse and interpret data from various reports and be able to plan and prioritise their own workloads effectively.
For further information, please contact Anthony Clark,eProcurement and Market Intelligence Manager via email:anthony.clark@sunderland.gov.uk
Applications should be made on-line at northeastjobs.org.uk/sunderlandcitycouncil. For further assistance contact Customer Enabling Services by email: jobs@sunderland.gov.uk
Please note that CVs are not acceptable.
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