Role: Head of Procurement
Salary: Starting £70,000
Sector: Public
Location: Uxbridge (3 days office, 2 days home)
Job Type: Full-time
Qualification: MCIPS or FCIPS
The role involves streamlining procurement processes, coordinating with technical, marketing, finance, and IT teams, and managing a team to achieve strategic procurement goals.
- Develop and implement a rolling ten-year procurement strategy, ensuring market leadership in public sector construction procurement.
- Manage day-to-day delivery of procurement programmes, ensuring regulatory compliance and maintaining a clear audit trail.
- Coordinate procurement activities from development to tender evaluation, award, and mobilisation.
- Provide expert advice and support to regional business units (RBUs) and ensure procurement needs are fully understood and catered for.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key personnel in RBUs, appointed companies, and potential suppliers.
- Recruit, train, and performance manage procurement personnel.
- Represent the organisation at procurement workshops and network events.
Requirements
- Experience in preparing, publishing, and reviewing public documentation (e.g., OJEU).
- Proven experience as a Procurement Professional within the public sector
- Detailed knowledge of contractual frameworks, legislative and statutory requirements relating to property, construction, and procurement.
- Experience in developing multi-user, multi-supplier frameworks.
- Knowledge of implementing a dynamic purchasing system (desirable).
- Degree level education (desirable).
- Highly disciplined, process-driven, and able to work to tight deadlines.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Numerate, IT literate, and commercially astute.
If this sounds like the ideal role for you, apply directly or drop your CV to lmccreight@venngroup.com