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Assistant Procurement Business Partner – Maternity Cover 12 months
Location : Mansfield
Salary : 27314.1 - 30349
About You
Do you want to use your expertise to provide procurement and commercial advice to colleagues across the organisation?
If so, this is a great opportunity to join the Procurement Team and help us to make a difference by supporting the team’s commercial growth.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Procurement team as an Assistant Procurement Business Partner providing cover for maternity leave as we deliver our commercial strategy to improve the services we deliver for our customers.
Our vision is to be ‘a problem solving, easy to work with Business Partner that adds value and benefits through a considered risk approach to deliver the needs of the business.’
Our purpose is to be ‘a professional and trusted Business Partner that is engaged with the business to drive the right commercial outcomes through proportional processes. Ensuring value is driven throughout the commercial lifecycle.’
You will be a great communicator who is able to listen, interpret the needs of the business whilst being able to influence to achieve the right commercial outcome to support the delivery of our new business plan using your Business Partnering experience.
You will need to be willing to learn and to put that learning into practice and be able to work as part of the supportive Procurement team supporting and inspiring team members.
We don’t expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
About The Role
You will have some procurement experience across a variety of categories within operational and civil engineering activities, either the public or private sector to deliver of a wide variety of projects.
The role gives an excellent opportunity to learn about public procurement, to improve your experience and deliver contracts that are strategic and help to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
You will enjoy working collaboratively with a wide variety of stakeholders to deliver projects. You will have a knowledge of procurement legislation and different contract conditions and most of all a willingness to learn and to help make the team work well.
Role location: Hybrid / Mansfield
For more information about the role please refer to the attached job description.
Schedule:
Application closing date: 25 February 2024
Sifting date: 26 February 2024
Interviews: From 1st March 2024
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About The Coal Authority
Our benefits:
- A market leading pension scheme – our employer contribution rate is around 27%
- A choice of working patterns; full-time, part-time, job-share
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Generous holiday allowance – 27.5 days annual leave, plus the ability to flex an extra 6 days in addition to 8 public holidays
- Adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
- Support with professional qualifications
- Payment of one annual professional subscription
- Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Diversity Network Groups
- Mental Health Allies
- Employee discounts available through Edenred
- Annual health check
- £15 per month towards wellbeing activities
- Civil Service Sports and Social club
- A values based recognition scheme
- On-site free parking, tea, coffee and soft drinks in the Mansfield office
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Coal Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
Here at TCA we don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our colleagues, our customers and our communities. We are proud to be an inclusive employer. We are committed to developing a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We encourage applications from people from different backgrounds, identities, cultures and beliefs. Diversity is vital to our success and innovation and is fundamental to our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.
As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or alternative format application forms you can get in touch with us by contacting the team by email at recruitment@coal.gov.uk or by phone on 01623 637000.
