Are you a procurement professional with a background in IT categories, looking for your next role?

Hays Procurement are delighted to be partnering exclusively with Birmingham City Council to recruit for a Commissioning Co-Ordinator on a permanent basis, as part of a large-scale recruitment campaign. This role will sit within the IT and Digital category and will be responsible for supporting the commissioning team in the delivery of effective, compliant and cost-effective commissioning of services across digital and technology, with a specific focus on below threshold procurements.

This permanent vacancy comes with a salary of between £33,071 and £40,401 per annum (dependent on skills and experience), 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working pattern and a generous pension scheme.

This is an exciting time to be joining Birmingham City Council, Europe’s largest local authority, and specifically supporting the digital and technology categories. The Council are embarking on a transformative journey towards establishing themselves as a truly data-driven organisation. With unprecedented investment in people and technology, a solid strategy, empowering leadership and a newly redesigned service to get behind, they are building services centred on the needs of our citizens, business and communities that will deliver on Birmingham’s bold ambitions for the city of today and tomorrow.

The Digital and IT commissioning team are part of and work closely within the multidisciplinary Digital and Technology Services (DTS) directorate, contributing to the transformation of public services for the UK’s second-largest city. The team work across a multitude of areas, including hardware, software, infrastructure, networking, telephony, development, data and cybersecurity, and are key to delivering procurements within our major programmes and projects, to deliver essential services across Birmingham to over 1.2m citizens.

The Council are embracing and promoting a truly digital, human-centred approach for the whole organisation, underpinned by collaboration, openness and innovation. The council takes advantage of unparalleled access to data, doing things at scale and new ways of using technology as an enabler to re-imagine the way services are delivered and build the digital council of the future. This bodes well for the procurement side of things, promising a dynamic and exciting environment for the right candidate.

You will take responsibility for the lifecycle of below threshold commissioning activities according to relevant corporate strategies, including market analysis, preparation of tender and ITT documentation and supplier selection. The successful candidate will support the Senior Commissioning Managers in putting together policy and procedural reviews, programme reviews and contract health checks in line with the applicable procurement laws and regulations, as well as assisting with status reports on digital, data and technology procurement activities. You will also be managing an internal e-tendering portal and contributing to the strategic direction by suggesting improvements for continual improvement of service provisions.

The ideal candidate for this role would be a procurement professional who has worked in an IT focused category previously, with a desire to gain experience in the full tendering process.