Procurement Manager - Housing - Local Authority

Reed Public Sector is actively recruiting for an Interim Procurement Manager - Housing for a Local Authority in Berkshire

Job Purpose

1. To provide strategic direction on procurement and best practice advice for the Housing & Communities service using a category management approach.
2. To oversee performance and overall management of Housing & Communities contracts, ensuring compliance with the Council's Contract Procurement Regulations, understanding and overseeing organisational governance, regulatory frameworks and procedures are complied with throughout the service.  
3. To lead and oversee the delivery of a Procurement Plan, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to the right quality, and that there is proper compliance with Procurement Standing Orders and with relevant regulation and legislation. 

Qualifications/Education/Training

1. Experience, skills and personal attributes are the most important aspects of the person specification for this role.
2. We would anticipate that the successful candidate will be educated to degree standard.
3. A relevant professional qualification, such as IACCM (International Association for Contract and Commercial Management), or equivalent experience 

Experience

1. Experience of tendering for services, goods and works, preparing necessary documentation.
2. Experience and knowledge of Public Sector whole lifecycle contract management, from soft market testing and pre-procurement, through to contract exit, with the ability to exploit them through application of tactics to drive best value for money.
3. Detailed understanding of relevant supply markets within the sphere of Housing & Communities

Have the expertise and experience?? and looking for a new Challenge? 

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Alternatively contact Muzna Naqvi at Reed Reading office