Senior Procurement Officer

My public sector client is recruiting an experienced Senior Procurement Officer to join the team on a permanent basis. Reporting into the Senior Category Manager, you will be responsible for helping to drive value from procurement of goods and services whilst realising sustainability ambitions and collaborating with key stakeholders (internal and external) to develop sustainable, procurement initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have strong procurement experience, preferably including public sector procurement experience, as well as ideally some FM category experience. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and deliver sustainable procurement solutions for a range of bought goods and services.

The successful candidate will have experience in:

• Sourcing solutions that realise value for money.
• Supporting the procurement team to achieve its savings target.
• Sourcing solutions that deliver social value benefits.
• Developing procurement strategies within Procurement Regulations that promote and realise new sustainability ideas and solutions.
• Rolling out sustainability KPIs for procurement that demonstrate added value
• Collaborative working to develop mechanisms and scorecards to track supplier performance related to sustainability and promote continuous improvement.
• Soft FM Category experience
• Developing procurement strategies derived from spend data analysis & research and using where appropriate, frameworks to source goods & services within a dynamic & agile environment.
• Public sector procurement

This a permanent role and is being offered on a hybrid basis so you will be required to travel to the Exeter office each week. The salary on offer starts at £41,500.