We are recruiting for a Procurement Officer for a government regulation who are looking for a procurement professional to provide support, advice and challenge to the business on all areas of procurement. They will liaise with and support all levels across the Commission on procurement matters.

Day Rate: £300 per day

Duration: 3 Months min

Location: Birmingham - 1 day a week in office

Key Responsibilities

• Administration and maintenance of procurement files on SharePoint
• Management of contract files, in particular requests for copies of contracts and ad-hoc requests such as confirmation of end dates.
• Administration of our e-Procurement platform such as monitoring message board and maintaining, potentially developing the contracts module
• Placing notices on contracts finder/find a tender
• Discovering information on Crown Commercial Service Framework
• Helping with formatting and drafting of procurement documents (downloading templates and adding base information)
• Supporting the production of various procurement management reports and responding to freedom of information requests.
• Contract lead for finance contracts i.e. travel and possibly procurement cards.
• Processing procurement requests i.e. new supplier and STA (within defined delegations)
• Tracking and reporting non-staff spend on the finance system (transactions that may exceed £10k but have not gone via official procurement process)
• Administration of spend control requests
• Production of procurement metrics

Essential:

• Previous experience of working in procurement
• Ability to plan, manage and deliver work to agreed deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Good stakeholder management, including the ability to work with, challenge and support staff at all levels.
• Strong communication skills, including being able to explain financial information to non-financial staff
• Good IT skills (particularly Excel)