Procurement Manager

Our client is a large local government organisation and looking for an experienced Procurement Project Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. The sucessful candidate will be expected to come on board and play a critical role and crucial to the success in contributing to an effective procurement service
for the organisation by managing procurement projects of low to medium value complexity and
supporting larger, more complex and / or high value muiti million pound projects.
• To provide expert technical information, advice and guidance on all aspects of the procurement
process to internal customers and to deal effectively with third party suppliers as external
customers of Brent’s processes.
• To work flexibly across all categories of expenditure and Departments to provide a resilient,
professional and customer-focussed procurement service to the council.

You will need

Knowledge (please specify all essential criteria): .

• Expert knowledge of the procurement process, ideally in a public sector environment. Where candidates can demonstrate expert knowledge of private sector procurement, they must show some awareness of public procurement, including relevant legislation, and a willingness and aptitude to become expert in this.

• Thorough knowledge of one or more categories of procurement activity: • Adult Social Care • Children’s Social Care • Education • Communities, Public Health and Culture • Corporate Services • Environmental Services • Regeneration, Construction and Housing

• Awareness of the wider policy context for public procurement, e.g. the Transparency Agenda, Social Value, Community Wealthbuiding, Sustainability, London Living Wage, Modern Slavery