The role
About Southwark
Southwark is an ambitious, vibrant, culturally diverse and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward thinking. We value our people, celebrate diversity and seek to find effective and creative ways of supporting our communities. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promises, which ensure that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.
The role
The Procurement Team is part of the Commissioning Division for Children’s and Adults Services. The team sits alongside our Contract Management, Strategic Programmes and Systems Support Teams as part of the Quality, Performance and Transformation function and also works closely with Commissioning. .
The procurement officers play a key role in managing all stages of the process for the allocated contracts including market development, supplier engagement, running tenders and selection processes and drafting contracts. The procurement team for Children's and Adults services tenders a wide range of services for adults and children in Southwark many of which are complex and high value and delivering statutory services to our residents.
About You
You will have a good knowledge of procurement and ideally a relevant qualification, you must have experience of procuring within a local government children's and adults context and a good understanding of the needs to our residents You will be flexible and able to prioritise your own workload as well as having a good eye for detail.
For an informal discussion, please contact Claire.belgard@southwark.gov.uk
Please note it is Southwark policy to offer posts at the start point for the grade for external candidates.
Benefits and more information:
https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing date: 11:59 PM on 23rd October
Interview date: 8th November
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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