Procurement Officer and Senior Procurement Officer

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS); East Midlands, Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic procurement team at a forward-thinking council, where you'll manage critical contracts for a variety of sectors. This role offers the chance to work flexibly, balancing office and remote work while contributing to the community. As a Procurement Officer or Senior Procurement Officer, you'll engage in strategic procurement processes, ensuring compliance with legislation and providing expert advice. The position promises a supportive work environment, generous benefits, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the public sector.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave

Local Government Pension Scheme

Flexible Working Options

Discounts on City Buses

Qualifications

• Experience in public sector procurement preferred.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate tender responses.

Responsibilities

• Manage procurement projects and liaise with service departments.
• Draft contracts and manage communications with bidders.

Skills

Procurement Management

Contract Law

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

IT Skills

Education

Public Sector Procurement Experience

Private Sector Procurement Experience

Tools

Tendering Systems

Job description

Procurement Officer and Senior Procurement Officer

Employer Leicester City Council Location Leicester, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 1 May 2025

View more categories View less categories Specialist Area Procurement Job Level Executive / Officer Sector Public Sector Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time CIPS Membership Non CIPS member

Full Time / 37 hours per week / Permanent

What you'll be doing

Joining our procurement team at Leicester City Council, you will join a fast-paced highly dynamic Mayoral Authority, procuring a whole host of critical contracts for goods works and services across a range of sectors.

With roles available across our team due to career progressions you'll join as a Procurement Officer or Senior Procurement Officer.

Day to day, within these roles you'll:

• Undertake and be involved in managing, a variety of procurement projects including liaising with service departments (internal clients).
  Consider procurement strategies/approaches and planning the procurement process.
• Prepare relevant procurement documentation (including evaluation schemes), advertise the contract, market engagement, manage evaluation of submissions, conduct tender clarifications.
• Draft correspondence, prepare evaluation reports, manage communications with bidders.
• Apply the Council's contract procedure rules and appropriate legislation, including the Procurement Act 2023, when conducting procurement activity and advising clients.
• Liaise with legal services to agree contract documentation.

As a senior team member you'll also:

• Undertake procurement activity more independently including higher value/higher complexity.
• Deputise for the Procurement Manager as and when required.
  Provides expert advice on procurement strategies/approaches and planning the procurement process.
• Manages negotiations with preferred suppliers, working with users and technical and legal specialists to draft contracts and technical schedules developing acceptance procedures and criteria.

What you'll need

Public Sector procurement experience is preferred but equivalent Private Sector experience and transferable skills are accepted. You'll have knowledge and experience relevant to a specific category specialism, e.g., Goods, Works and Services, including Procurement Act 2023 training (TPP) or commitment to complete this within 4 weeks of starting.

Using your experience of procurement, tendering and contract management processes, as well as basic knowledge of contract law. You'll be highly organised, with the ability to prioritise time and objectives effectively. With strong analytical skills with ability to review information presented within tender responses and evaluations to identify the best value.

In addition, you'll have excellent communication skills, ability to present statistical or technical reports and liaise with both internal and external stakeholders. Including, proficient IT skills, ability to use and manage our IT tendering systems for advertising contracts.

About the role

You'll have flexibility in hybrid working being both office based, at City Hall or working remotely from home to suit your needs and those of your clients. The team currently attends City Hall for a minimum of 1 day a week, where you will join them.

This is a career graded post procurement officer at LG Band 6 £31,067 - £33,366 Per Year and Senior procurement officer at LG Band 9 £ 41,511 - £ 44,711 Per Year . Appointment to a level will depend on the outcome of the selection process and experience of the successful candidate. Dependent on availability of work/vacancy at a higher level, progress will be by satisfactory performance, agreed at annual Appraisals and through on-going supervision.

The roles are subject to a DBS check and Right to Work check. We are unable to offer sponsorship with this role.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working.
In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.

For an informal discussion, please contact: [e-mail]

Interview/Assessments will take place on the 10th and 11th of June 2025 in City Hall, Leicester.

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