Procurement Officer – Gloucester
Location: Gloucester, Hybrid.
Salary: £235 per day.
Full Time – 37 hours per week.
Contract: Three months – possibly beyond.
About the Job: Working as part of the Council's Strategic Procurement Service you will support or lead tender activity or act in a support role to provide specialist support or analytical services to the team or its customers. This is one of a number of posts in the Strategic Procurement Service that work flexibly to support the commercial needs of the Council. Success will depend on developing critical relationships at all levels, particularly with commissioners, outcome managers, project manager and other support services. You will be expected to demonstrate a good level of procurement knowledge and expertise perhaps in a specialist subject area and may be required to undertake discreet procurement projects.
This is what we need you to do - Provide commissioners or other clients with pragmatic and informed advice so that customer outcomes and value for money requirements met or exceeded. Specifically you will need to;
1. Use specialist knowledge or expertise to achieve superior outcomes.
2. Undertake market and supplier research to inform the development of commissioning and commercial thinking.
3. Undertake or lead discreet procurement projects an...