Your new company
South East Consortium are a not-for-profit central purchasing body working in the public sector. They create frameworks and dynamic purchasing models for use by their customers.
The Operations Team provides solutions for their customer’s procurement and technical needs throughout all stages of their projects, providing services to help them navigate changes in the market and the legislative landscape.
SEC has grown steadily over the last 5 years, and they are focussed on creating dedicated roles to lead and manage their teams to create resilience, flexibility and build even further on our relationship-centric culture.
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Your new role
As Senior Procurement Manager – Projects you will be responsible for developing and leading the procurement project team to deliver call-off projects from frameworks and dynamic models.
Engaging with customers and suppliers to build and maintain relationships, providing guidance on the delivery of associated contracts, putting the customer at the heart of the process.
Establishing and maintaining excellent collaborative relationships with senior-level colleagues and stakeholders to ensure strategic, organisational and functional requirements are understood and incorporated into SEC procurement projects.
Leading the procurement project team to convert leads into opportunities and deliver procurement projects in a relationship-centric manner, working with internal teams/stakeholders to understand customer needs and improve the service that is delivered.
Designing and presenting creative solutions to meet customer needs within the regulatory parameters. Maintain and review call-off procedures, processes and documentation to ensure compliance and efficiency and ensure the procurement project team operates to the agreed methods.
Developing, motivating and creating a learning environment to support the procurement project team to meet their development
What you'll need to succeed
Experience of delivering customer-centric services, driving high levels of service and ensuring compliance.
Full knowledge and experience in public sector procurement – especially using frameworks and dynamic models through a call-off process
Understanding the Procurement Act 2023.
Experience of demonstrating leadership and managing a team.
Being able to engage and communicate with colleagues and customers at different levels.
MCIPS qualification would be desirable, as well as an understanding of the housing sector and knowledge of asset management projects.
What you'll get in return
Great opportunity to join an ambitious organisation truly looking to make a difference to the sector, your workload will be diverse with varied client stakeholder teams and no 2 days will be the same.
SEC values their teams and has created an environment of openness, all opinions count and are developed with quarterly team-building activities and staff away days.
Holiday allowance, starting at 27 days, rising by 1 day per year to a maximum of 30.
Birthday Leave – An additional day off for your birthday!
Reward Perkz scheme - exclusive discounts and savings.
Vitality Private Healthcare & Pension scheme with some great benefits.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
- Christopher Harrington
