Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy for a Procurement Business Partner to join the team flexible working across the NWS estate.
As part of this role you will manage effective and efficient, end to end procurement projects that support NWS making good business decisions. And provide authoritative advice to the NWS business on strategic and operational commercial matters in support of the implementation of the GDF programme.
You will also deliver NWS's contractual arrangements as a limited company, whilst ensuring compliance with public expenditure controls, and support the development of the supply chain, and to ensure that NWS has suitable tracking and intelligence systems in place to effectively manage its strategic suppliers.
The purpose of this job is to manage effective and efficient, end to end procurement projects that support NWS making good business decisions.
To provide authoritative advice to the NWS business on strategic and operational commercial matters in support of the implementation of the GDF programme.
To deliver NWS’s contractual arrangements as a limited company, whilst ensuring compliance with public expenditure controls.
To support the development of the supply chain, and to ensure that NWS has suitable tracking and intelligence systems in place to effectively manage its strategic suppliers.
- Manage several categories of indirect expenditure across NWS as allocated by the Head of Commercial and Procurement.
- Manage a diverse range of end-to-end procurement projects from across all indirect categories in order to maximise value for money, according to NWS’s procurement policy, the Public Contracts Regulations and professional good procurement practice.
- Influence a wide range of internal and external stakeholders up to Director level, including acting as a business partner to a defined directorate, working as a critical friend to help them solve problems and realise opportunities for NWS while ensuring compliance with the procurement policy.
- Utilise the support of the Procurement Analyst to analyse spend and contract data to inform the strategy for procuring services or goods or solving a business need in another way (such as undertaking using internal resource, hiring staff or making a grant). This will involve detailed and advanced use of Excel day-to-day, in order to analyse and maintain spreadsheets of NWS’s spend and contracts.
- Develop and analyse procurement management information to improve business intelligence and inform commercial decisions and business plans made at all levels within the organisation. This will involve managing procurement systems (currently CTM e-Sourcing system, Atamis spend management system, and a series of detailed spreadsheets including our combined contracts register and pipeline) to provide key performance information on a regular basis and occasionally preparing reports or presentations on management information.
- Facilitate meetings with internal and external stakeholders, such as clarification of scope or market engagement events with suppliers or meeting with internal stakeholders to understand their needs or update them on progress.
- Publish procurement opportunities, including on Contracts Finder and the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).
- Authorise financial information including Purchase Orders and new suppliers.
- Other duties as may be required to support the effective operation of NWS Business Services.
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (MCIPS), part-qualified or similar professional certification (with potential to sponsor further study)
- Degree or equivalent academic qualifications
- Excellent understanding of how to run end to end procurement projects
- Prioritising – with support - a challenging workload of competing priorities
- Excellent written and verbal English
- Advanced use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint including detailed formatting of formal contract documents in Word
- Ability to quickly learn and work with new processes and IT systems
- Good stakeholder management skills with the ability to present and discuss information professionally and tease information out of people
- Able to understand, explain and apply NWS’s procurement process (implementing the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and procurement good practice) with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Previous experience of managing indirect procurement projects
- Experience working in a procurement team
We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. We are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.
In promoting equal opportunities, we welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of disabled candidates who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.