Permanent vacancies
Position: Procurement Specialist x 2
Salary: £40,000 - £43,000
Location: Remote-based - South West, South East or Home Counties - travel required
Sellick Partnership is delighted to be supporting a growing not-for-profit organisation in the recruitment of two Procurement Specialists, following increased demand for their procurement services across the education sector.
These roles are ideal for procurement professionals who already have solid experience and are looking to step into a more senior, influential position within an expanding and purpose-driven team.
The team operates on a nationwide basis, delivering a broad range of procurement services to education providers. They offer flexible and bespoke solutions, helping clients meet their tendering and procurement requirements while ensuring compliance and value for money.
Vacancy 1 - Procurement Specialist
Key responsibilities:
- Take prime responsibility for carrying out a variety of procurement activities for clients, and ensure that effective professional dialogue is maintained with the client in relation to the following activities:
- Research, analysis and reviewing of client non-pay expenditure
- Providing full procurement activity reports
- Identifying, delivering and securing savings across a wide range of categories
- Obtaining, compiling and keeping data up to date to inform clients of procurement activities
- Exploration of the client’s current spend, with benchmarking and market testing activity to consider alternative suppliers, and where appropriate draft reports recommending changes to achieve savings
- Review of the client’s current written procurement procedures and regulations
- Drafting policy and procedure notes in relation to procurement and value for money
- Prepare all necessary paperwork for tenders and requests for quotation, including realistic timetables that comply with the Procurement Act 2023
- Project manage all procurement activities against agreed timetables, alerting the Procurement Manager, Head of Service and client of any potential difficulties or delays
- Keeping records of savings performance vs. Targets
- Ensuring that the client’s workplan and contract data is kept current and up to date
- Drafting monthly and termly progress reports
- Arranging on-site information gathering visits and clarification presentations with suppliers and clients, and attending these events to facilitate the smooth running of the service
Requirements:
- Public sector procurement/purchasing experience
- Experience supporting end-to-end framework tenders
- Strong communication/stakeholder engagement skills
- CIPS qualification or studying - support available
- Ability to prioritise and plan own workload
Vacancy 2 - Catering Procurement Specialist
Key responsibilities:
- Provide assistance and support in delivering catering tenders at all stages of the catering procurement process
- Be proactive in learning, researching and developing an understanding and knowledge of the public sector catering market
- Run compliant catering tenders via a variety of routes to market, including utilising Procurement Act 2023 procedures once fully trained
- Attend potential new customer meetings to assist in securing business, demonstrating the advantages of utilising the organisation and your knowledge and expertise of the catering sector
- Be proactive with the client’s employees to promote the benefits of procurement best practice
- Assist in the preparation of relevant paperwork for all requests for quotes and tenders
- Arrange on-site information gathering visits and clarification presentations with suppliers and clients, and attend these events to facilitate the smooth running of the service
- Review the client’s compliance with its own procurement/contracting procedures regularly
- Identify opportunities for additional savings
- Review, draft and finalise contracts for clients in a range of product and service areas
- Advise clients on and assist with the compilation, introduction and monitoring of Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
- Develop with the client a programme for monitoring and reviewing of contractual arrangements
Requirements:
- Experience in procurement/purchasing within the catering sector
- Experience supporting end-to-end tenders
- Strong communication/stakeholder engagement skills
- CIPS qualification or studying - support available
- Ability to prioritise and plan own workload
The successful applicants will be based remotely, but will travel on a regular basis to meet clients within an agreed geographic region. This will be in the South East, South West or Home Counties region.
To apply, please submit your CV or contact Kathryn Evans or Rebecca Dawson in the Sellick Partnership Derby office for a confidential chat.