NHS
Procurement Manager
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Job Description
- Req#: F0116-25-0006?language=en&page=708&sort=publicationDateDesc
- What youll need
- With significant experience and knowledge of public sector procurement, tendering and contract management processes, including complex, high risk and value projects.
- Youll have experience of using procurement to achieve social value, i.e. to encourage economic regeneration, local employment and skills development and environmental improvements.
- As well as, experience of developing and implementing procurement strategies for certain categories of goods, works and/or services. Including, Procurement Act 2023 training (TPP) or commitment to complete within 4 weeks of starting.
- What youll need
- With significant experience and knowledge of public sector procurement, tendering and contract management processes, including complex, high risk and value projects.
- Youll have experience of using procurement to achieve social value, i.e. to encourage economic regeneration, local employment and skills development and environmental improvements.
- As well as, experience of developing and implementing procurement strategies for certain categories of goods, works and/or services. Including, Procurement Act 2023 training (TPP) or commitment to complete within 4 weeks of starting.
Job summary
Are you ready to join one of the largest Unitary Authorities in England as we embark upon an ambitious programme of transformation?
If so, come and joining the Procurement Team at Leicester City Council. This exciting opportunity is for a Procurement Manager within our Procurement Services team. You will be working in a fast paced highly dynamic Mayoral Authority with an annual spend of £400m, to procure a whole host of critical contracts for goods works and/or services.
This role plays a key part of improvement, development and innovation of the Procurement service. You can expect autonomy and encouragement in providing new ideas, along with an incredibly varied role where no two days will be the same.
Youll work 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday as part of our flexible working scheme. With hybrid working youll be based at Home and Leicester City Offices currently min. 1 day a week from the office City Hall, Charles Street, Leicester.
Main duties of the job
Developing and implementing procurement strategies for categories of goods/works or services. While, using your innovation and creativity to manage demand, deliver efficiency savings, service improvements and strategic objectives of the Council. You will be pragmatic, solution-focused and able to work in a multi-disciplinary environment with internal and external partners.
You will act as procurement lead on a wide variety of high profile/highly complex and strategic projects. Participating in, cross-functional project teams to deliver corporately significant high value/risk complex procurement projects.
As part of a team of professionals in the delivery of the Councils procurement function you will help develop, mentor and coach an existing team of procurement staff, and promote the implementation of good practices and procedures among the team.
About us
hat we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can lookforward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. Youll enjoy generousannual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexibleworking. Well also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of trainingand development opportunities. In addition, you can choose fromseveralflexible benefits,including discounts on city buses and trains. Foran illustrative value of your benefits package,take a look at ourbenefits calculator.
Join us
Were committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build acouncil that is fitting and representative of our great city. Thats why weve designed ourrecruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you.Well do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with yourapplication,take a look at the our approach to recruitment page.
The roles are subject to a basic DBS check.
Details
Date posted
23 July 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£49,764 to £52,805 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours
Reference number
F0116-25-0006
Job locations
115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
To provide decisive and effective leadership to a team of procurement staff in line with the councils Vision and Values and Leadership Qualities that enables them to
to do their best work resulting in high levels of people and organisational performance.
manage the procurement of high value isk goods, works and/or services to enable service delivery to the councils customers and to deliver efficiency savings and achieve the councils strategic objectives
Job responsibilities
To provide decisive and effective leadership to a team of procurement staff in line with the councils Vision and Values and Leadership Qualities that enables them to
to do their best work resulting in high levels of people and organisational performance.
manage the procurement of high value isk goods, works and/or services to enable service delivery to the councils customers and to deliver efficiency savings and achieve the councils strategic objectives
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Experience
Essential
Experience
Essential
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Leicester City Council
Address
115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Leicester City Council
Address
115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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