Your new company

We’ve received a new mandate to support a long-standing Public Sector client of Hays. They have allocated a budget aimed at enhancing their estates, facilities, and equipment through strategic capital investments.

Your new role

• Liaise closely with the end-users in determining their requirements to provide early input into the sourcing process.
• Accountable for the timely delivery of procurement projects, including implementation, contractual delivery, also ensuring associated catalogue management and ordering processes are agreed to support an efficient requisition to pay process.
• Promotes interaction between end-users and suppliers to ensure supplier development and appreciation of end-user requirements.
• Lead and administers the tendering system.
• Assumes overall authority and accountability for the buying function including specifying the type, quality and volume of categories ordered.
• Handles all queries and issues relating to specific procurement processes and procedures.
• Ensures adherence to and understanding of purchasing policies and procedures in order that purchasing standards are upheld.
• Category: Capital Equipment & Estates such as Hard FM i.e. Groundworks, Maintenance, Lift Repairs and Re-vamp procurements

What you'll need to succeed

• Proven working knowledge of Public Sector Procurement.
• Hands-on experience managing public procurements and tendering activities within a regulated environment, specifically aligned with PA23 and PCR15.
• Familiarity with utilising public frameworks, such as the CCS Framework.
• Ideally, CIPS or MCIPS qualified, with a minimum of 6 years’ experience in the public sector.

What you'll get in return

What you need to do now

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