1st Executive have been retained by a public sector body to manage the recruitment for an Interim Category Officer to assist with key projects within Corporate, Environment and Property spend areas.

JOB PURPOSE:

• Assist the Category Managers with contract management and manage own contractual workload
• Assist the Category Mangers with Spend Analysis and Category Reviews
• Assist the Category Managers with portfolio planning, bundling and key stakeholder management
• Assist the Category Managers with category management framework plans and efficiency profiling
• Support the Category Managers to devise category management savings plans through to implementation
• Ensure that procurement of goods and services is done a cost effective and efficient manner.
• Responsible for own workload as well as assisting the Category Managers develop category and sub-category strategies
• Assist with procurement projects
• Support the Category Managers and the Commercial Hub Manager in developing category plans and programmes, providing procurement assistance throughout the commissioning cycle
• To be involved with Category Managers in negotiating with and developing suppliers, analysing and acting on spend data to achieve savings, and contributing to internal and external capacity building

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Understanding of Public Sector procurement regulations - OJEU & contract procedures
• Demonstrable experience of managing end to end tenders
• Exposure to environment, property or corporate procurement
• Demonstrable experience of managing stakeholders up to Heads of Service level
• Experience of using an e-procurement system - In-Tend (Desirable)
• Ability to run reports in a financial management system - Agresso (Desirable)