Job Title: Procurement Services Manager Start Date: 9th March 2026 End Date: 31st August 2026 Hours: 37 hours per week (Full Time) Location: Cambridge or Chelmsford campus Hourly Rate: £20.10 per hour Job Purpose: To work closely with all Faculties and Professional Services across campuses, to provide appropriate guidance to enable successful procurement, analysing procurement needs, preparing procurement plans, establishing stakeholder service standards, benchmarking, monitoring supplier performance, tendering and contract review. Principal Accountabilities: * Work within a small team to provide customer-focused professional procurement service to our stakeholders. * Communicate and achieve customer buy-in to our procurement strategy. * Advise and provide guidance on complex procurement matters in accordance with our established procedures and regulations. * Create tender and other procurement specifications including Frameworks. * Lead and/or facilitate cross functional teams in targeted reviews to improve procurement practices. * Develop mechanisms to monitor and improve the performance of suppliers. * Evaluate supplier responses, arrange supplier presentations and related administration in conjunction with the Head and Deputy Head of Procurement. * Responsible for writing and ensuring Terms and Conditions are completed and signed after Procurement exercises have been completed. * Monitor performance of existing contracts by arranging contract reviews and reviewing Key Performance Indicators. * Analyse procurement needs by considering management data on spend information obtained from our finance system Business World and via Qlik model. * Complete statutory returns and external requests for information for the areas covered by this job description. * Ensure legal compliance in all work in areas covered by this job description (including Public Sector Procurement Legislation). * Provide professional advice and expertise in order to make recommendations within professional guidelines to support informed decision making. * Employ a pro-active approach to continuous improvement by making recommendations to improve established administrative working practices. * Be responsible for planning and prioritising own workload to contribute to the achievement of the Professional Service’s objectives as well as maintaining and improving efficiency. * Organise and resolve issues and queries independently and providing Procurement advice on procedures and related matters to staff at all levels. * Be the point of contact for Procurement processes, systems, and procedures for procurement. * Use of on-line systems including e-tendering (In-Tend) and financial system (Business World). Person Specification: * Degree and appropriate level of experience and evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role OR Part qualified in a relevant professional qualification and appropriate level of experience and evidence of continuing professional development Previous experience: * Procurement regulations and providing specialist Procurement knowledge in a Procurement environment * Managing tendering procedures, including Public Sector requirements * Creation of tender documentation and drafting contracts * Experience of analysing and resolving problems through detailed manipulation and analysis of information * Experience of analysing data and writing reports Knowledge/Skills: * Detailed understanding of the standards and regulations relating to UK Public Sector Procurement * Ability to successfully resolve complex issues and queries * Ability to effectively plan and organise complex activities * Ability to build relationships and drive positive change * IT literate and sound knowledge of Microsoft Office Please apply online with a CV and covering letter. Application close date: Thursday 26th February, 9am Interview Date: Tuesday 3rd March - the interviews will be in person on Chelmsford campus Only successful candidates will be contacted due to the number of applications received