Overview
Join to apply for the Procurement and Compliance Lead role at South Gloucestershire Council.
This is a hybrid role meaning that you can work remotely or in our offices. Interviews anticipated week commencing 3rd November 2025.
How You’ll Make a Difference
As the ‘go-to’ expert in procurement and contract management in the department, you will provide advice to commissioning colleagues for Adult Social Care, Integrated Children’s Services, Housing, Public Health and provider organisations to meet our strategic commitments. Through building strong partnerships and collaborative working, you will support the development of the care provider market in South Gloucestershire to deliver department-wide commissioning priorities.
What You Will Be Doing
* On a daily basis, monitor compliance with procurement legislation, council procurement rules, governance requirements and contract management processes across the wider Partnerships and Commissioning Unit and offer advice and support to colleagues.
* Offer support to commissioners within the Adult Commissioning team, Housing and Public Health to manage their contracts and assist procurements and joint commissioning arrangements across Health and Social Care and Public Health.
* Work collaboratively to provide sound expertise, advice and information to a range of senior customers throughout the council and research and analyse opportunities for innovation and establish new and efficient ways of working, ensuring that council activity is lawful.
* Have a small portfolio of social care related contracts to procure and manage; work closely with suppliers and partners to negotiate and manage projects, ensuring that business needs, service standards and budget requirements are met.
* Lead our approach to market development and service redesign, focusing on sustainability, quality, health integration, coproduction and achieving outcomes within available resources.
* Support the team by flexibly responding to different work pressures and areas as necessary. You may manage a small team of Commissioning Officers to support your work.
What We Need From You
* It is essential that you have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care, public health, housing or business studies or other relevant subject, or comparable workplace experience.
* You will have a minimum CIPS level 4 qualification, or significant experience of procurement in the workplace.
* It is highly desirable that you have experience at a senior level in a commissioning role in a social care, housing, health or public health environment.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation, including Care Act market shaping responsibilities, and a good working knowledge of PCR 2015, Procurement Act 2023 and the Provider Selection Regime.
* Experience of developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning strategies or business plans, including needs assessment and market analysis preferably related to social care, health, public health and housing services and of contract management and performance appraisal.
* An understanding of children’s and adult social care, housing, health and public health and their underpinning values, standards and legislative framework.
What You Need To Know
This is a hybrid role meaning that you can work remotely or in our offices.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
* We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
* We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
* As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
* We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Commissioning Manager
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