To work closely with all Faculties and Professional Services across campuses with a focus on Estates and Facilities Management, 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.

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.
Arrange and attend meetings with internal and external customers on behalf of the Professional Service and provide cover in the absence of the Head and Deputy Head of Procurement.

Ensure accuracy and attention to professional guidelines and university policy.

Be responsible for effectively transferring skills to others through training.

Use of on-line systems including e-tendering (In-Tend) and financial system (Business World).
Comply with Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR requirements in all working practices maintaining confidentiality, integrity, availability, accuracy, currency and security of information as appropriate. Take personal responsibility for all personal data within own working environment.
Comply with Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Safeguarding, Health & Safety and Sustainability responsibilities as detailed in our policies and procedures.
Such other duties temporarily or on a continuing basis, as may reasonably be required, commensurate with your grade.