Role: Procurement Manager
Salary/Rate: £70-77 per hr inside IR35
Location: Hybrid, Reading
Contract Duration: 18-months
We are currently looking for a Procurement Manager for our government client.
This Procurement Manager role is hybrid, based between working 2 days per week on site in Reading and the remainder of the week working remotely. There is no further flexibility with the on-site requirement.
The contract for the Procurement Manager position is for 18-months, with potential to extend, operating inside IR35.
Security Clearance: Security Check ("SC Clearance")
This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role, it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.
Essential skills/experience required:
- Proven procurement and strategic sourcing experience within the public sector, including use of Government frameworks
- Strong working knowledge of PA23 and PCR, with demonstrable compliance in complex procurement environments
- Experience managing NEC contracts
- Effective stakeholder management skills across internal teams, suppliers and government/commercial partners
- Practical experience in supplier relationship management, including supplier segmentation, performance and risk management
- Ability to identify, assess and mitigate contract and supplier risk, including quality, HSE, environmental and supply chain resilience
- Track record of developing and implementing supplier strategies and robust contract control/reporting systems
- Exposure to Jaegger or similar e‑procurement systems (desirable)
- Experience in defence, nuclear or highly regulated environments (desirable)
- MCIPS qualification or working towards (desirable)
Role / Responsibilities:
- Acting as a role model for health, safety, environmental and quality management. Ensure contracts are aligned to business safety and quality management systems and be an advocate of organisation behaviours.
- Establishing a high level of credibility and manage complex working relationships with internal and external parties including both commercial and government partners.
- Drive suppliers segmentation (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the organisation Supplier Relationship Management Framework and drive SRM implementation, in collaboration with business stakeholders, for assigned suppliers
- Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including Quality, Environmental & Health and Safety, supplier fragility as well as dependency on organisation and organisation dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks
- Develop and implement Supplier Strategies for assigned key suppliers.
- Ensure contract control systems are robust and suitable to support all post contract commitments and satisfying the reporting/governance processes
- Ensuring legal compliance with contracts by monitoring changes in laws or regulations that may affect the company's ability to meet its obligations and mitigate any potential conflict of interest or breach of company ethic's policy.
- Ensure there is an effective contract reporting and engagement strategy in place to enable all key stakeholders to be aligned to contracts risks and opportunities.
- Identify and estimate the likelihood and impact of contract-related risk, establish mitigation methods aligned to business needs and track effectiveness of those mitigations
- Ensuring a robust SRM delivery plan is in place for all assigned critical suppliers
If you are interested in the above role, please click Apply Now and send a CV for quick review.
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, they will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify, please notify us on igs [at] circlerecruitment [dot] com. We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your guaranteed interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a better way for us to communicate, please do let us know.
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