Are you a senior leader in Procurement, looking for your next role? Are you looking for a position that will give you the opportunity to develop and drive a dynamic IT & Digital procurement team?

Hays Procurement are delighted to be partnering exclusively with Birmingham City Council to recruit for a Lead Commissioning Manager on a permanent basis, as part of a large-scale recruitment campaign. This role will sit within the IT and Data category and will primarily be focussed on the development and management of a robust commissioning framework across the category.

This permanent vacancy comes with a salary of between £49,498 and £61,269 per annum (dependent on skills and experience), 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 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 be the reporting line for a team of Senior Commissioning Managers and Co-ordinators, taking responsibility for the procurement pipeline and efficient support of the relevant categories within DTS. You will be expected to advise on the overall procurement approach, identify savings and any opportunities for delivering value for money, playing a direct role in shaping the strategic direction of the procurement function. Not only will this role have oversight of the delivery of all procurement, both below and above threshold, but you will be responsible for the development of tender documentation and oversight of all contracts across the digital and technology categories. Embedding procurement best practice, including compliance, mitigation of commercial and operational risk and e-procurement system management, will be the responsibility of the Lead Commissioning Manager.

This role will report into the Interim IT Procurement and Commissioning Manager and would suit candidates from an IT procurement or commissioning management background, ideally within the public sector, who have managed full procurement lifecycles and have previous experience with both people and strategy management.