Procurement Manager - (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 6 Months

Contracting Authority: Education Authority NI (EANI)

Location: Remote but must be open to travel to Belfast (once a month if that)

EA was established on 1 April 2015 under the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014. EA is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Education (DE) and the Department for the Economy (DfE), responsible for ensuring that efficient and effective primary and secondary education and educational services are available to meet the needs of children and young people, and for ensuring the provision of efficient and effective youth services.

As a Procurement Manager your main responsibilities would be: 

• Responsible for Procurement competition management, adhering to stakeholders policies. Promote best practice at all times, assisting in management of project staff, third party legal and insurance advisors. Be involved in Stakeholder management and Tender Negotiation phase planning and delivery. Management of contract documentation delivery and assistance with bid evaluation and governance input. Provide input to relevant PMO and Procurement reporting.

You ll have relevant experience in:

• MCIPS qualification.
• Strong public procurement experience.
• Maintenance, Facility background (Desirable).
• Manage a portfolio of contracts.
• Manage a team of people to deliver contracts.
• Delivering above threshold contracts.
• Excellent communication skills and be able to communicate effectively with staff, customers and suppliers at all levels
• Ability to assess objectively all aspects in the management of the supply chain
• Have a pro-active and self-motivated approach
• Have experience in the operation of the e-TendersNI
• Have experience in the operation of an Oracle based Procure to Pay system
• More than 3 years experience.
• Background in portfolio contracts.
• Managing a team of buyers 3 in the team.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Tammara.Grewal@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, PSR provides a Guaranteed Interview  scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of our PSR Sourcing team.

If you qualify, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk and we will be in touch.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.